On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
But the grouping behaviour? I really don't see a lot of value in that - just boilerplate. We don't write bool.True and bool.False, we write True and False.
I have to agree with that. Enums can live in a module (together with stuff that uses them) or in a class (if all the uses are limited to that class); they don't need an extra namespace of their own. The standard examples using homonyms in unrelated enums are typically missing the fact that Python doesn't really have *global* variables -- only "module-global", which is really quite narrowly scoped. If a single module or package is exporting so many enums that extra scoping is considered useful, it's easy enough to introduce an extra namespace using existing mechanisms (e.g. a class or a submodule). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)