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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:47:54 -0800
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alex23 wrote:
> On Dec 9, 8:08 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/9/11 5:02 AM, alex23 wrote:
>>> The 3rd party 'decorator' module takes care of issues like docstrings
>>> &  function signatures. I'd really like to see some of that
>>> functionality in the stdlib though.
>> Much of it is:
>>
>>    http://docs.python.org/library/functools#functools.update_wrapper
> 
> Ah, cheers :) Is that a recent addition? The lack of note makes it
> seem like it was there from the beginning?

Not sure how recent it is, but I do know it does *not* handle the signature.

~Ethan~