[Zope-dev] zope.formlib's action decorator return Action() object, not the decorated function. Why?

[Wichert Akkerman]

On Sep 16, 2012, at 07:28, Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:44:30PM +0200, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
>> After years and years of heavily using zope.formlib it suddenly struck
>> me that the zope.formlib.form.action decorator returns an Action()
>> object instead of the decorated function (this action object is also
>> added to the form's actions sequence as a "side effect" of the decorator).
>> 
>> I know wonder: Why?
> 
> (I've no clue.)

Another effect of this is probably that you can use sphinx's autodoc for actions which would be unfortunate.

Wichert.