[steveklabnik]

Ah. So, Python uses the Java annotation syntax for decorators? Hm. One more thing I'll have to look into when I get the time.

[rbanffy]

Actually, I think Java uses Python decoration syntax for annotations, but I have been wrong before.

[pmiller2]

I'm pretty sure Python picked it up after Java did. But, I don't think it's a case of imitation; it's just that the glyph '@' happened not to have syntactic meaning attached to it and it looks okay.