On 29 July 2011 00:58, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

>
> Why not Colors.inject(__name__)?

Because enums aren't import enough to warrant introducing little atrocities into the language.


Uh ?? It's the same code just taking a module name instead of requiring you to pull the module out of sys.modules yourself. It's not an atrocity at all.

Michael


Raymond


P.S.  I used the term "language" instead of stdlib because I expect
enums to be like decorators and context managers in that they
will be used almost everywhere -- you won't be able to ignore them.
Effectively, they will become a core language feature.



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