Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: dectools
Version: 0.1.2
Summary: decorator toolkit library
Home-page: http://charlesmerriam.com/dectools/
Author: Charles Merriam
Author-email: charles.merriam@gmail.com
License: MIT License
Description: ========
        DecTools
        ========
        
        DecTools provides a library of tools for creating Python decorators.  It
        unifies usage between class decorators, decorators requiring arguments,
        and simple decorators.  It also provides correct names, doc, and function
        signatures for decorated functions.  Typical usage often looks like this::
        
        @make_call_once
        def register_callback(function):
        gui.callback_create(function.__name__, function)
        
        @make_call_before
        def require_login(function, args, kwargs, page_name):
        while not current_user_id():
        ...
        
        @register
        @require_login("Summary of Items")
        def view_summary():
        ...
        
        This release has *@make_call_(once/before/after/instead)*.  It also has
        commonly used decorators in this release, including:
        
        * *@pre*, *@post* for pre and post condition processing
        
        * *@log()* for logging function calls
        
        * *@invariant*, a class decorator, for contract programming
        
        Thanks
        ======
        
        Thanks to Michele Simionato for exposing utility functions in
        Decorator Decorator and to David Mertz for his excellent IBM
        Developer Works article "Charming Python:  Decorators make
        magic easy", http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cpdecor.html
        
        Contact
        =======
        
        You can contact the author, Charles Merriam, at charles.merriam@gmail.com.
        Or visit http://charlesmerriam.com
        
        Other Notes
        ===========
        This is a 'shared experiment' release.
        
        This package depends on "decorator", 3.1.2 or above, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator/3.1.2
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
Requires: decorator (>=3.1)
