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

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/25/2013 06:03 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
>
> The __call__ syntax has been repurposed for the convenience API:
>
> --> Animals = Enum('Animals', 'ant bee cat dog')
> --> Animals
> <Animals {ant: 1, bee: 2, cat: 3, dog: 4}>
> --> Animals.ant
> <EnumValue: Animals.ant [value=1]>
> --> Animals.ant.value
> 1
>
> The aforementioned deprecated syntax refers to __call__ with a single arguments (the convenience API by definition
> requires more than one).

I don't understand why having Enum() be the convenience function rules out `Animals(1)` from returning `Animals.ant`.

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~Ethan~