[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
Philip Jenvey
pjenvey at underboss.org
Wed May 1 00:51:44 CEST 2013
On Apr 27, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> class Planet(
>> Enum,
>> names='''
>> MERCURY
>> VENUS
>> EARTH
>> MARS
>> SATURN
>> JUPITER
>> URANUS
>> PLUTO
>> ''',
>> ):
>> '''Planets of the Solar System'''
>>
>> Not sure I like that. Ah well.
>
> The problem with this and similar proposals is that it puts things
> inside string quotes that belong outside them.
So does the convenience API outlined in the PEP, so this is just an alternative to that.
--
Philip Jenvey
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