def _actually(something):
        """
        A decorator that returns its argument rather than the thing it is
        decorating.

        This allows the documentation generator to see an alias for a method or
        constant as an object with a docstring and thereby document it and
        allow references to it statically.

        @param something: An object to create an alias for.
        @type something: L{object}

        @return: a 1-argument callable that returns C{something}
        @rtype: L{object}
        """
        def decorate(thingWithADocstring):
            return something
        return decorate

        A decorator that returns its argument rather than the thing it is
        decorating.

        This allows the documentation generator to see an alias for a method or
        constant as an object with a docstring and thereby document it and
        allow references to it statically.

        @param something: An object to create an alias for.
        @type something: L{object}

        @return: a 1-argument callable that returns C{something}
        @rtype: L{object}
        
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