[Python-Dev] PEP 435: initial values must be specified? Yes
Tim Delaney
timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com
Sun May 5 23:55:22 CEST 2013
On 6 May 2013 06:09, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 05/05/2013 10:07 AM, � wrote:> I'm chiming in late, but am I the only
> one who's really bothered by the syntax?
>
>>
>> class Color(Enum):
>> red = 1
>> green = 2
>> blue = 3
>>
>
> No, you are not only one that's bothered by it. I tried it without
> assignments until I discovered that bugs are way too easy to introduce.
> The problem is a successful name lookup looks just like a name failure,
> but of course no error is raised and no new enum item is created:
>
> --> class Color(Enum):
> ... red, green, blue
> ...
>
> --> class MoreColor(Color):
> ... red, orange, yellow
> ...
>
> --> type(MoreColor.red) is MoreColor
> False
>
> --> MoreColor.orange
> <MoreColor.orange: 4> # value should be 5
>
Actually, my implementation at https://bitbucket.org/magao/enum (the one
mentioned in the PEP) does detect MoreColor.red as a duplicate. It's
possible to do it, but it's definitely black magic and also involves use of
sys._getframe() for more than just getting module name.
>>> from enum import Enum
>>> class Color(Enum):
... red, green, blue
...
>>> class MoreColor(Color):
... red, orange, yellow
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File ".\enum.py", line 388, in __new__
raise AttributeError("Duplicate enum key '%s.%s' (overriding '%s')" %
(result.__name__, v.key, k
eys[v.key]))
AttributeError: Duplicate enum key 'MoreColor.red' (overriding 'Color.red')
>>>
So long as I can get one of the requirements documented to implement an
auto-number syntax I'll be happy enough with stdlib enums I think.
class Color(AutoIntEnum):
red = ...
green = ...
blue = ...
Not as pretty, but ends up being less magical.
Tim Delaney
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