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[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax

Simon Percivall s.percivall at chello.se
Mon Aug 9 21:20:35 CEST 2004 
On 2004-08-09, at 19.50, Fernando Perez wrote:
> I further worry what will happen to tools like inspect.getsource() with
> decorators outside the def:
>
> @foo
> @bar
> def baz(x,y):
>    ....
>
> if I try to get the source for baz, will I see foo/bar?  For 
> introspection
> tools, this can lead to pretty misleading results.  But perhaps this 
> is easy
> to solve or has even already been taken care of.  I imagine if 
> @foo/@bar were
> inside the def, this wouldn't be an issue.

Right now, you'll see the source of the function/method defined above
the decorators or, if none, the top line/lines of the source file. Yes,
it's pretty broken.
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