Decorator "platform"

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Hello,

no, I won't start another @ discussion thread; just wondering: Everyone
is up and starting with decorators, coding decorator functions, wrapper
etc. Many of these ideas sound great, and it would be a big advantage to
everyone following to have the different uses of decorators collected,
to serve as a starting point or a repository of what's possible.

What I have in mind is a sort of "decorator library" where everyone who
has written a useful function of that kind can share it with others,
instead of only posting it here. As I don't know whether there will be a
"decorators" module in the stdlib, this would serve as a replacement
until decorators are a final language feature.

How would one realise such a project?

Reinhold

 

[Doug Holton]

it would be a big advantage to
everyone following to have the different uses of decorators collected,
to serve as a starting point or a repository of what's possible.

What I have in mind is a sort of "decorator library" where everyone who
has written a useful function of that kind can share it with others,
instead of only posting it here. As I don't know whether there will be a
"decorators" module in the stdlib, this would serve as a replacement
until decorators are a final language feature.

How would one realise such a project?

Maybe you could create a PythonDecoratorLibrary page at the Python wiki:
http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary
Click the UserPreferences link on the top right to register for an
account to be able to edit pages there. And surround your python syntax
with {{{ }}} so the formatting stays the same. Example:

{{{
#!python

@classmethod
def foo (arg1, arg2):
....
}}}

 

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Maybe you could create a PythonDecoratorLibrary page at the Python wiki:
http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary

[x] done. Thanks for the good idea!

I hope you use this wikipage to publish your decorator solutions!

Reinhold

 

[John J. Lee]

What I have in mind is a sort of "decorator library" where everyone who
has written a useful function of that kind can share it with others,

[...]

God help us. <0.5 wink>


John

 

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

What I have in mind is a sort of "decorator library" where everyone who
has written a useful function of that kind can share it with others,

[...]

God help us. <0.5 wink>

God IS helping us, or we wouldn't use Python.

Reinhold

 

[Stefan Eischet]

What I have in mind is a sort of "decorator library" where everyone
who
has written a useful function of that kind can share it with others,

[...]

God help us. <0.5 wink>

God IS helping us, or we wouldn't use Python.

If there's a god, is there also a MDFH (malevolent dictator from hell)
trying to "enhance" Python? ;-)

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[Doug Holton]

God help us. <0.5 wink>

I'm seeing a pattern. You respond without reading. See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonDecoratorLibrary

 

[John J. Lee]

I'm seeing a pattern. You respond without reading. See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonDecoratorLibrary

OK, brevity is the soul of wit and all that, but I see I didn't
succeed in communicating my point.

I don't doubt the utility, on a case-by-case basis, of some of the
uses of decorators that people are devising, and will continue to
devise. I do fear that this is a pressure towards 'Babel-ization' of
the language.

I don't honestly know whether that fear is justified -- it's based
mostly on listening to people on this newsgroup who have posted about
their experiences with Lisp macros.


John

 

[Mel Wilson]

I don't doubt the utility, on a case-by-case basis, of some of the
uses of decorators that people are devising, and will continue to
devise. I do fear that this is a pressure towards 'Babel-ization' of
the language.

It starts to remind me of a kind of obfuscation, codable
in, say, C++, where the visible text of the program is
actually irrelevant, and all the real computing is done as
side-effects of the constructors.

I don't honestly know whether that fear is justified -- [ ... ]

Ditto.

Regards. Mel.