[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Mon Apr 22 02:28:16 CEST 2013
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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