On 05/05/2013 10:07 AM, � wrote:> I'm chiming in late, but am I the only one who's really bothered by the syntax?
class Color(Enum): red = 1 green = 2 blue = 3
No, you are not only one that's bothered by it. I tried it without assignments until I discovered that bugs are way too easy to introduce. The problem is a successful name lookup looks just like a name failure, but of course no error is raised and no new enum item is created: --> class Color(Enum): ... red, green, blue ... --> class MoreColor(Color): ... red, orange, yellow ... --> type(MoreColor.red) is MoreColor False --> MoreColor.orange <MoreColor.orange: 4> # value should be 5 About the closest you going to be able to get is something like: def e(_next=[1]): e, _next[0] = _next[0], _next[0] + 1 return e class Color(Enum): red = e() green = e() blue = e() and you can keep using `e()` for all your enumerations, since you don't care what actual value each enumeration member happens to get. -- ~Ethan~