[Python-Dev] PEP-435 reference implementation

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 02/05/13 08:54, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> If enums had an "as_dict" method that returned an ordered dictionary, you
> could do:
>
> class MoreColors(Enum):
>      locals().update(Colors.as_dict())


Surely that is an implementation-specific piece of code? Writing to locals()
is not guaranteed to work, and the documentation warns against it.

http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#locals


-- 
Steven