Comments on: Python Decorators: What they are underneath

By: crschmidt

crschmidt — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:58:37 +0000

Jeremy:

Perhaps I don’t understand Jython version numbering, but generally I assume ‘bX’ to be indicitive of a beta release. In fact, the Jython project still says “For production use please continue to use Jython 2.2.1.” So, it seems to me that Jython is still at 2.2 for anyone who wants to work in production.

By: Jeremy Dunck

Jeremy Dunck — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:50:36 +0000

FWIW, Jython 2.5b0 was released in October.

By: Sean Gillies

Sean Gillies — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:52:30 +0000

Glad you liked it. You’re right, decoration is largely syntatic sugar, but it standardizes the technique, promotes DRY, and makes the wrapping very obvious to a programmers eye. My eye, at least.

I disagree that use of decorators means that my code is “only forward looking”.
Decorators appeared in Python 2.4, in 2004. 4 years of backwards compatibility is pretty good, I say.