[Python-ideas] Enums

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
<snip>
> A few other things I've done in my experimental branch:
>
> - Added an optional argument `iterable` to make_enum() so that you can use the
>  convenience function to auto-assign integer values other than sequentially
>  incrementing from 1.  E.g.
>
>    >>> def enumiter():
>    ...     start = 1
>    ...     while True:
>    ...         yield start
>    ...         start <<= 1
>    >>> make_enum('Flags', 'a b c d e f g', enumiter())
>    <Flags {a: 1, b: 2, c: 4, d: 8, e: 16, f: 32, g: 64}>

Very neat, albeit of questionable enum-ness.

> - Renamed attributes .enumclass -> .enum and .enumname -> .name (hey, if
>  you're going to be backward incompatible...)

Excellent. That just leaves SomeEnum(...) vs.SomeEnum[...].

Cheers,
Chris