[Python-ideas] adopt an enum type for the standard library?

[Mathias Panzenböck]

Mark Summerfield schrieb:
> 
> This is the kind of thing I'm looking for:
> 
>     flags = Enum("OK", "ERROR", "OTHER") # defaults to sequential ints
>     flags.OK == 0
>     flags.ERROR == 1
>     flags.OTHER == 2
>     flags.OK = 5 # exception raised
>     flags.FOO # exception raised
>     str(flags.OK) == "OK"
> 

I once wrote this:
http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub/files/enum

I don't know how good this is, though.

	-panzi