[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86633 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/inspect.rst Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst Lib/inspect.py Lib/test/test_inspect.py Misc/NEWS

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM,  <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> On 04:24 pm, solipsis at pitrou.net wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:08:36 +0100
>> Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.niksic at avl.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2010 04:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> > +1.  The problem with int constants is that the int gets printed, not
>>> > the name, when you dump them for debugging purposes :)
>>>
>>> Well, it's trivial to subclass int to something with a nicer __repr__.
>>> PyGTK uses that technique for wrapping C enums:
>>
>> Nice. It might be useful to add a private _Constant class somewhere for
>> stdlib purposes.
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0354/

Indeed, it is difficult to do enums is such a way that they feel
sufficiently robust to be worth the effort of including them (although
these days, I would be inclined to follow the namedtuple API style
rather than that presented in PEP 354).

Cheers,
Nick.

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