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

[Philip Jenvey]

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.

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Philip Jenvey