[Python-Dev] Enumeration item arguments?
Eli Bendersky
eliben at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 00:25:48 CEST 2013
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> In the Planet example we saw the possibility of specifying arguments to
> enum item __init__:
>
> class Planet(Enum):
> MERCURY = (3.303e+23, 2.4397e6)
> VENUS = (4.869e+24, 6.0518e6)
> EARTH = (5.976e+24, 6.37814e6)
> MARS = (6.421e+23, 3.3972e6)
> JUPITER = (1.9e+27, 7.1492e7)
> SATURN = (5.688e+26, 6.0268e7)
> URANUS = (8.686e+25, 2.5559e7)
> NEPTUNE = (1.024e+26, 2.4746e7)
>
> def __init__(self, mass, radius):
> self.mass = mass # in kilograms
> self.radius = radius # in meters
>
> Do we want to support this?
>
I'm -1, and this is yet another bad sign of conflating enums with classes.
If planets want to have attributes and behaviors, let them be normal
classes. If they want a PlanetId *enum member*, that's OK, but there's no
need to intermix the two.
Besides, did we not agree that the only acceptable *members* for enums are
going to be descriptors? In the above, mass & radius are not descriptors.
Eli
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