Shai, thanks for your input as well. I think there are a few things that AOPython can do that are not quite as simple with decorators, but I could be wrong because I haven’t used them.

AOPython can-

1. wrap almost any callable (not just functions). Note that some callables, once wrapped, cannot be reassigned to their original name/location (i.e. list.append is not a writeable attribute). This simply means that the wrapped version must be referred to by a different alias.

2. declaratively weave or wrap any class or function–even ones that are imported–with minimal syntax. I believe decorators must be applied by putting the @deco line before the function declaration.

Note, I wrote AOPython on Python 2.3.4. After trying it out on 2.4 tonight I noticed that the last doctest (complex weave example–weave the re module) does not pass. Guess I still have some work to do. To be fair, I could just remove that test as it isn’t a very good test anyway–it’s more of an elaborate example.

It seems like you have some interesting ideas, but could you explain, for the rest of us, how this improves upon Python2.4’s decorators?

Just a quick note to say great job!

I’ll have a better look soon but really nice job.

- Sylvain