[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 22, 2013, at 09:02 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>Iteration order matters a lot if you don't want people complaining about
>enums being broken:
>
>  class Days(enum.Enum):
>    Monday = 1
>    Tuesday = 2
>    Wednesday = 3
>    Thursday = 4
>    Friday = 5
>    Saturday = 6
>    Sunday = 7

Sorry, that's still not a complete use case.  I don't see why you'd depend on
iteration order over Days for any particular functionality.  Besides, if you
did, I think it would be better to derive Days from IntEnum and then iteration
order is guaranteed over the values.

-Barry
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