[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:24:18 +0000
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> Well, for backwards compatibility reasons the new constants would have 
> to *behave* like the old ones (including having the same underlying 
> value and comparing equal to it).
> 
> In many cases it is *likely* that subclassing int is a better way of 
> achieving that. Actually looking through the standard library to 
> evaluate it is the only way of confirming that.
> 
> Another API, that reduces the duplication of creating the enum and 
> setting the names, could be something like:
> 
>      make_enums("Names", "NAME_ONE NAME_TWO NAME_THREE", base_type=int, 
> module=__name__)
> 
> Using __name__ we can set the module globals in the call to make_enums.

I don't understand why people insist on calling that an "enum". enum is
a C legacy and it doesn't bring anything useful as I can tell. Instead,
just assign the values explicitly.

Antoine.