Removed docs that assume developer might be using Python < 2.4

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12400 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt

@@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ The ``Library.filter()`` method takes two arguments:
     2. The compilation function -- a Python function (not the name of the
        function as a string).
 
-If you're using Python 2.4 or above, you can use ``register.filter()`` as a
+You can use ``register.filter()`` as a decorator instead::
-decorator instead::
 
     @register.filter(name='cut')
     @stringfilter
@@ -557,8 +556,7 @@ The ``tag()`` method takes two arguments:
     2. The compilation function -- a Python function (not the name of the
        function as a string).
 
-As with filter registration, it is also possible to use this as a decorator, in
+As with filter registration, it is also possible to use this as a decorator::
-Python 2.4 and above::
 
     @register.tag(name="current_time")
     def do_current_time(parser, token):
@@ -657,7 +655,7 @@ Our earlier ``current_time`` function could thus be written like this::
 
     register.simple_tag(current_time)
 
-In Python 2.4, the decorator syntax also works::
+The decorator syntax also works::
 
     @register.simple_tag
     def current_time(format_string):
@@ -738,8 +736,7 @@ loader, we'd register the tag like this::
     # Here, register is a django.template.Library instance, as before
     register.inclusion_tag('results.html')(show_results)
 
-As always, Python 2.4 decorator syntax works as well, so we could have
+As always, decorator syntax works as well, so we could have written::
-written::
 
     @register.inclusion_tag('results.html')
     def show_results(poll):

docs/topics/auth.txt

@@ -696,36 +696,19 @@ The login_required decorator
 
         from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
 
-        def my_view(request):
-            # ...
-        my_view = login_required(my_view)
-
-    Here's an equivalent example, using the more compact decorator syntax
-    introduced in Python 2.4::
-
-        from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
-
         @login_required
         def my_view(request):
-            # ...
+            ...
 
     :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required` also takes an
     optional ``redirect_field_name`` parameter. Example::
 
-        from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
-
-        def my_view(request):
-            # ...
-        my_view = login_required(redirect_field_name='redirect_to')(my_view)
-
-    Again, an equivalent example of the more compact decorator syntax
-    introduced in Python 2.4::
 
         from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
 
         @login_required(redirect_field_name='redirect_to')
         def my_view(request):
-            # ...
+            ...
 
     :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required` does the following:
 
@@ -1058,23 +1041,15 @@ checks to make sure the user is logged in and has the permission
 
         from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
 
+        @user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'))
         def my_view(request):
-            # ...
+            ...
-        my_view = user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'))(my_view)
 
     We're using this particular test as a relatively simple example. However,
     if you just want to test whether a permission is available to a user, you
     can use the :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required()`
     decorator, described later in this document.
 
-    Here's the same thing, using Python 2.4's decorator syntax::
-
-        from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
-
-        @user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'))
-        def my_view(request):
-            # ...
-
     :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test` takes a required
     argument: a callable that takes a
     :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object and returns ``True`` if
@@ -1093,7 +1068,7 @@ checks to make sure the user is logged in and has the permission
 
         @user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'), login_url='/login/')
         def my_view(request):
-            # ...
+            ...
 
 The permission_required decorator
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -1107,9 +1082,9 @@ The permission_required decorator
 
         from django.contrib.auth.decorators import permission_required
 
+        permission_required('polls.can_vote')
         def my_view(request):
-            # ...
+            ...
-        my_view = permission_required('polls.can_vote')(my_view)
 
     As for the :meth:`User.has_perm` method, permission names take the form
     ``"<app label>.<permission codename>"`` (i.e. ``polls.can_vote`` for a
@@ -1120,9 +1095,9 @@ The permission_required decorator
 
         from django.contrib.auth.decorators import permission_required
 
+        permission_required('polls.can_vote', login_url='/loginpage/')
         def my_view(request):
-            # ...
+            ...
-        my_view = permission_required('polls.can_vote', login_url='/loginpage/')(my_view)
 
     As in the :func:`~decorators.login_required` decorator, ``login_url``
     defaults to :setting:`settings.LOGIN_URL <LOGIN_URL>`.

docs/topics/cache.txt

@@ -332,13 +332,6 @@ to use::
 
     from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 
-    def my_view(request):
-        ...
-
-    my_view = cache_page(my_view, 60 * 15)
-
-Or, using Python 2.4's decorator syntax::
-
     @cache_page(60 * 15)
     def my_view(request):
         ...
@@ -365,12 +358,9 @@ requested, subsequent requests to that URL will use the cache.
 works in the same way as the ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX`` setting for the
 middleware.  It can be used like this::
 
-    my_view = cache_page(my_view, 60 * 15, key_prefix="site1")
-
-Or, using Python 2.4's decorator syntax::
-
     @cache_page(60 * 15, key_prefix="site1")
     def my_view(request):
+        ...
 
 Specifying per-view cache in the URLconf
 ----------------------------------------