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

Greg greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 26 05:08:13 CEST 2013


On 26/04/2013 2:38 p.m., Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Can't we do some kind of callable check? There may be some weird
> decorators that won't work, but they aren't likely to be useful in
> this context.

Another possible solution:

class Color:

    red = 1
    white = 2
    blue = 3
    orange = 4

    class __methods__:
       def wave(self, n=1):
         for _ in range(n):
            print('Waving', self)

and have the metaclass pull the functions out of the __methods__
sub-object.

-- 
Greg



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