[Python-ideas] constant/enum type in stdlib

Tim Delaney timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 21:14:59 CET 2013


On 13 February 2013 02:42, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2013, at 05:49 PM, Tim Delaney wrote:
>
> >_ is aliased to EnumParams so you can do:
>
> _() is very commonly used for gettext translations, by long established
> convention.  This is convention is inherited by Python from GNU gettext.
>

Good point - it's actually what inspired me to use it, but a bad idea for
me to do so. I've taken that out.

Tim Delaney
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