[Python-Dev] backported Enum

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 15, 2013, at 10:45 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:
> 
>> So I have the stdlb 3.4 Enum backported for both earlier 3.x and back
>> to 2.4 in the 2.x series.
>> 
>> I would like to put this on PyPI, but the `enum` name is already
>> taken.
> 
> I have for a long time approved of ‘flufl.enum’ becoming the One Obvious
> Way to do enumerations, and am glad to see PEP 435 bring it into the
> standard library.
> 
> <URL:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-July/010811.html>
> 
> There are some people still contacting me about their use of the ‘enum’
> package on PyPI, so I think that to just replace it with a different
> code base under the same name would not be helpful.
> 
>> Would it be inappropriate to call it `stdlib.enum`?
> 
> That sounds good to me.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to keep the ‘enum’ package online for
> continuity but make it clear, to automated tools, that this is
> end-of-life and obsoleted by another package?

Right now the best you can do is make a note of it. Pep 426 let's you do what you want. 

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