[Python-Dev] mention aenum in the Enum docs?

[Jim F.Hilliard]

Being the one who left the comment, I'm all for adding it.

The reason I wondered why it was not there was because I was aware you are
the author of both so, I believe, the con of it being a 3rd party library
is minimized. I've also seen plenty of people asking around for more
advanced usages of Enums so it's better to direct them to a library that
not only covers many cases but is also reliable due to you authoring it.

I'm afraid that the alternative of adding it to the wiki (as you replied)
would make no tangible difference on its visibility.




On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 9 May 2017 at 10:59 Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev <
> python-dev at python.org> wrote:
>
>> On 09/05/2017 18:05, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> > A comment on a recent SO answer [1] wondered why my aenum library wasn't
>> > mentioned in the docs to help guide people that needed/wanted more
>> > advanced Enum options to it.  I responded that Python was not in the
>> > habit of mentioning third-party libraries in the docs.
>> >
>> > However, I thought I would double-check here to see if it might be a
>> > good idea.
>> >
>> > Pros:
>> > - drop-in replacement for the stdlib Enum
>> > - has many advanced features such as
>> >    - auto __init__ building
>> >    - multi-value members
>> >    - duplicate value but non-aliasing members
>> >    - etc.
>> > - I'm the primary/only maintainer for both
>> >
>> > Cons:
>> > - third-party library
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > --
>> > ~Ethan~
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/43855536/208880
>>
>> The precedent is all ready set as the third-party regex module gets a
>> mention here https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html and the requests
>> package here https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html.
>>
>
> Mark's right that we already do this for select modules. Since aenum is by
> the author of enum to add things that don't fit in the stdlib and has been
> out for years (i.e. by you, Ethan :) , I see nothing wrong with linking to
> it.
>
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