[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
R. David Murray
rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Apr 23 17:31:06 CEST 2013
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:11:06 -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I gotta say, I'm with Antoine here. It's pretty natural (also coming
> from other languages) to assume that the class used to define the
> enums is also the type of the enum values. Certainly this is how it
> works in Java and C++, and I would say it's the same in Pascal and
> probably most other languages.
Well, I guess I can wrap my head around it :) An Enum is an odd duck
anyway, which I suppose is one of the things that makes it worth adding.
--David
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