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Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures

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On 04/04/2013 02:18, Michele Simionato wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 3:05:31 AM UTC+2, Rotwang wrote:
>> After thinking about it for a while I've come up with the following
>>
>> abomination
>
> Alas, there is actually no good way to implement this feature in pure
> Python without abominations. Internally the decorator module does
> something similar to what you are doing. However, instead of cooking up
> yourself your custom solution, it is probably better if you stick to
> the decorator module which has been used in production for several
> years and has hundreds of thousands of downloads. I am not claiming
> that it is bug free, but it is stable, bug reports come very rarely and
> it works for all versions of Python from 2.5 to 3.3.

Thanks, I'll check it out. Looking at the link Steven provided, I didn't 
see an easy way to add additional keyword-only arguments to a function's 
signature, though (but then I've yet to figure out how the FunctionMaker 
class works).

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Decorating functions without losing their signatures Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-04-03 02:05 +0100
  Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-03 04:15 +0000
    Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-04-04 02:53 +0100
  Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures Jan Riechers <janpeterr@freenet.de> - 2013-04-03 08:06 +0300
  Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures Michele Simionato <michele.simionato@gmail.com> - 2013-04-03 18:18 -0700
    Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-04-04 03:17 +0100
  Re: Decorating functions without losing their signatures Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-04-04 02:44 +0100

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