[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 12 February 2013 13:21, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The ideas thrown around and Tim's prototype in the thread "constant/enum
> type in stdlib" show that it's possible to use some metaclass magic to
> implement very convenient syntax for enums, while only including them in the
> stdlib (no language changes):
>
> from enum import Enum
>
> class Color(Enum):
>   RED, BLUE, GREEN
>
> I'm, for one, convinced that with this in hand we should *not* add special
> syntax for enums, since the gains would be minimal over the above proposal.
>
> While the parallel thread (and Tim's Bitbucket issue tracker) discusses his
> proposed implementation, I think it may be worthwhile to start from the
> other direction by writing a PEP that aims to include this in 3.4. The way I
> see it, the PEP should discuss and help us settle upon a minimal set of
> features deemed important in an enum.
>
> If that sounds OK to people, then someone should write that PEP :-) This
> could be Tim, or Barry who's been maintaining flufl.enum for a long time. If
> no one steps up, I will gladly do it.

I'd be fine with writing the PEP as well - maybe we could do it together?


>
> Thoughts?
>
> Eli
>
>