Enigma Curry wrote: > > > Sorry, for the noob question, but I haven't been able to find > documentation on this matter. > > I've been looking for documentation that describes what the @function() > syntax is all about. > > I've seen this on a few pages, for instance: > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/307871 > > and also in TurboGears: > > http://www.turbogears.com/docs/wiki20/page5.html > > The general format appears to be: > > @somefunction() > def a_newfunction(): > .... > > What does it mean and what does it do? > > Thanks!
It's called a decorator, new in Python 2.4: http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/whatsnew/node6.html Not sure where it lives in the official documentation right now though... Maybe someone else can provide that. Jay P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
