On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> 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.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
