Re: Why won't this decorator work?

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Ian Kelly wrote:
> If it's not a callable, then the result
> will just be that something non-callable is bound to the "roll_die"
> name -- which could be useful, but is probably a bad idea in general.

There are legitimate uses -- for example, the following
is a convenient way of creating a read-only property:

   @property
   def foo(self):
     return self.calculate_value_of_foo()

-- 
Greg

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Why won't this decorator work? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 09:56 -0700
  Re: Why won't this decorator work? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-07-02 18:33 +0100
    Re: Why won't this decorator work? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 11:08 -0700
      Re: Why won't this decorator work? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-07-02 13:45 -0500
        Re: Why won't this decorator work? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 13:39 -0700
          Re: Why won't this decorator work? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-03 08:36 +1000
          Re: Why won't this decorator work? "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-07-03 18:01 +0000
            Re: Why won't this decorator work? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 20:24 -0700
            Re: Why won't this decorator work? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-04 20:22 +1200
      Re: Why won't this decorator work? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 12:49 -0600
        Re: Why won't this decorator work? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-03 16:14 +1200
      Re: Why won't this decorator work? ChasBrown <cbrown@cbrownsystems.com> - 2011-07-02 12:16 -0700
      Re: Why won't this decorator work? ChasBrown <cbrown@cbrownsystems.com> - 2011-07-02 12:17 -0700
      Re: Why won't this decorator work? ChasBrown <cbrown@cbrownsystems.com> - 2011-07-02 12:16 -0700
      Re: Why won't this decorator work? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-03 12:11 +1000
        Re: Why won't this decorator work? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 19:14 -0700

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