[Python-ideas] Enums

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> We've actually been down the 'namespace object' road years ago (Steve
> Bethard even wrote a proto-PEP IIRC) and it suffered the same fate as
> most enum PEPs: everyone has slightly different ideas on what should
> be supported, so you end up being faced with one of two options:
> 1. Ignore some of the use cases (so some users still have to do their own thing)
> 2. Support all of the use cases by increasing the API complexity (so
> many users will still do their own thing instead of learning the new
> API)

For enums, I think we should just pick a solution. I'm in favor of
Barry Warsaw's version, flufl.enum.

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