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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 23 17:44:21 CEST 2013


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:31 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, you're being to literary/poetic. I can't tell what you meant by
this response.

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