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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:06:53 -0500
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On 09/14/12 07:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> [snip timeout class]
> 
> Holy over-engineering Batman!!!
> 
> No wonder you don't think much of decorators,
[snip]

> Most of my decorator functions are under a dozen lines. And that's the 
> complicated ones!


As are mine, and a sizable chunk of those under-a-dozen-lines are
somewhat boilerplate like using @functools.wraps inside, actual def
of the function, and returning that function. :-)

-tkc