[Python-ideas] Enums

[Michael Foord]

On 29 July 2011 00:58, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
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> >
> > Why not Colors.inject(__name__)?
>
> Because enums aren't import enough to warrant introducing little atrocities
> into the language.
>
>
Uh ?? It's the same code just taking a module name instead of requiring you
to pull the module out of sys.modules yourself. It's not an atrocity at all.

Michael


> Raymond
>
>
> P.S.  I used the term "language" instead of stdlib because I expect
> enums to be like decorators and context managers in that they
> will be used almost everywhere -- you won't be able to ignore them.
> Effectively, they will become a core language feature.




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