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Re: How to avoid "()" when writing a decorator accepting optional arguments?

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  Re: How to avoid "()" when writing a decorator accepting optional arguments? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-17 10:18 -0700

#7835 — Re: How to avoid "()" when writing a decorator accepting optional arguments?

Giampaolo Rodolà wrote:
> I've written this decorator to deprecate a function and (optionally)
> provide a callable as replacement

I can see providing the replacement function so that you can say, for 
example, "you are calling a deprecated function -- <function xyz> is the 
replacement".

If your replacement function is drop-in compatible, though, why bother 
with the whole deprecate decorator?  Just drop it in!  :)

~Ethan~

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