[Python-Dev] Re: @decorators, the PEP and the "options" out there?

[Guido van Rossum]

> >If the syntax does end up along these lines (and I'm expressing no
> >opinion either way), then maybe it would be worth explicitly
> >telling people (i.e. in PEP 8) that they ought to put a blank line
> >before decorators to make it clear?
> 
> Does PEP 8 tell people that they should put a blank before comment
> lines introducing a function?

No, but it tells them to *separate* methods by blank lines.  So that's
pretty clear guidance for where the put blank lines relative to the
decorators.

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