May 2, 2013
3:47 p.m.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On May 02, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
Why isn't getattr() for lookup by name good enough?
Because it will find things that are not enum items, e.g. '__str__'.
Why does that matter?
I claim it doesn't. The name lookup is only relevant if you already know that you have a valid name of an enum in the class, e.g. if you know that a Color name was written earlier. If you don't, you should do some other check, e.g. "if x in Color:". (Note that from this you cannot derive that Color[x] should work.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)