[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:21:04 -0800,
Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> from enum import Enum
> 
> class Color(Enum):
>   RED, BLUE, GREEN

I think I'd favour a namedtuple-style approach, e.g.:

class Color(Enum):
    fields = ('RED', 'BLUE', 'GREEN')

(which allows you to build enums programmatically too)

Also, I think you have to provide several classes, at least
SequenceEnum and StringEnum, and perhaps also BitmaskEnum.
It makes sense for them to be separate types, 1) because it makes it
explicit how the given enum behaves, 2) because combining integer and
str constants in an enum would be crazy.

Regards

Antoine.