[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Sun Apr 21 23:52:32 CEST 2013
On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>On 21/04/13 15:33, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> The PEP is fine, as it already allows duplicate names without encouraging
>> them:
>>
>> class Insect(Enum):
>> wasp = 1 # Preferred. Use this in new code.
>> bee = 2
>> ant = 3
>> # Backwards compatibility aliases
>> Insect.wsap = Insect.wasp
>
>Hmmm, I must have missed this.
>
>That satisfies my use-cases. Objection withdrawn.
Yay!
-Barry
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