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Sat Aug 7 23:05:14 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047309.html

> I just wanted to say that I believe it should be allowed to decorate
> classes. There's not reason enough (reading the thread linked to by the
> PEP) to limit decorators this way. Like said several times in that
> thread, metaclasses are harder (to write and to understand) than
> decorators.
> 
> Also, considering that you said you would have actually wanted
> docstrings above the definition of a function, wouldn't this apply
> to classes as well?
> 
> Anyway, it's an artificial limit and it would be better to be able
> to test it out during the alpha.

Are you volunteering to implement it?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[Python-Dev] pep 318, Decorators for Functions, Methods and Classes