Hi all, Now that I am able to run the source code of an open source application I hope to one day help develop, I am trying to understand how it works. One thing I keep seeing is an at sign followed by a word, usually (maybe always) immediately preceeding a function definition. For example, and I know this exact code will not make much sense, but it gives the idea: class Bing(Messages, Updating, Dismissable):
@set_index def get_url(self, index=None): return self.storage[index]['Url'] What is the "@set_index" for? Specifically, what is the at sign doing? Google was only able to provide me with a very vague idea of what is going on, though it seems to crop up a lot in classmethod and staticmethod calls (not sure about those either). I read PEP 318, but it was not much help since I am coming at this having no idea what I am looking at. The PEP did explain why I have never run into this before, though - it is apparently specific to Python. I see this sort of thing all over this source code so it seems like a good idea to get exactly what it is for. TIA! -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor