On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Yury Selivanov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The rationale is that sometimes you need to modify signatures.
> For instance, in decorators.

A decorator should make a modified copy, not modify it in place (since
the signature of the decorated function does not change, and you have
no guarantee that that function is no longer accessible.)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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