[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 15:15 +0000, Michael Foord a écrit :
> There are still two reasonable APIs (unless you have changed your mind 
> and think that sticking with plain integers is best), of which I prefer 
> the latter:
> 
> SOME_CONST = Constant('SOME_CONST', 1)
> OTHER_CONST = Constant('OTHER_CONST', 2)
> 
> or:
> 
> Constants = make_constants('Constants', 'SOME_CONST OTHER_CONST', start=1)

Or:

Constants = make_constants('Constants', 'SOME_CONST OTHER_CONST',   
                           values=range(1, 3))

Again, auto-enumeration is useless since it's trivial to achieve
explicitly.

Regards

Antoine.