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Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions

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On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
<lawrencedo99@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 10:39:30 AM UTC+12, Ian wrote:
>> Sorry, but you're the one who doesn't seem to get it. Because it's a
>> decorator, "your" function is replacing the caller's function in the
>> caller's namespace.
>
> No it is not. The replacement happens here:
>
>         def generated_decorator(func) :
>             return \
>                 decorator(func, *args, **kwargs)
>         #end generated_decorator
>
> As you can see, the function being called, “decorator”, is supplied by the caller. The function being decorated, “func”, is supplied by the caller (along with the additional *args and **kwargs). And the returned function is returned *as-is*, so whatever docstring was assigned by the caller is *NOT* “clobbered”.

I'm talking about the docstring of the *decorator*, not func. I agree
that whatever docstring func has is entirely up to func and the
decorator, not your code. Here again is the example I posted earlier:

>>> @decorator_with_args
... def my_decorator(func, *args, **kwargs):
...     """Returns func unmodified."""
...     return func
...
>>> my_decorator.__doc__
'generates a decorator which applies my_decorator to the given arguments'

I never made any claim about the docstring of the decorated func.

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Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-28 15:02 +1000
  Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-06-27 23:08 -0700
  Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-28 18:39 +1000
  Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-29 19:43 -0700
    Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-30 13:49 +1000
    Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-06-30 09:25 +0200
      Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 00:43 -0700
        Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-30 18:00 +1000
        Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-06-30 10:41 +0200
    Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2016-07-01 09:04 +0200
      Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-01 21:25 +0100
        Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-02 11:52 +1000
        Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2016-07-02 08:57 +0200
        Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-02 18:00 +1000
  Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-29 19:50 -0700
  Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 15:08 -0700
    Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 23:09 -0600
      Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 23:40 -0700
        Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 22:48 -0600
          Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 22:37 -0700
            Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 05:52 -0600
              Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 14:17 -0700
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 16:38 -0600
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 16:25 -0700
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 09:39 +1000
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 16:59 -0700
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 10:06 +1000
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 17:23 -0700
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 18:01 -0600
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 17:06 -0700
                Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 18:20 -0600
    Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-02 15:32 +1000
    Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 23:53 -0600

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