[aerovistae]

Even if that was true, which I'm not arguing one way or the other, it wouldn't take much effort of imagination to come up with other use cases that aren't solved by decorators.

This has a taste of the old "they would have asked for a faster horse" argument.

[zomglings]

I actually agree with you. I wasn't implying that the OP should consider refactoring their code. Just trying to understand for myself when I would prefer autocomplete over organization of code.