[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Tim Delaney]

On 13 February 2013 07:58, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> But in 99% of the cases in Python code I absolutely don't care about the
> values of these enumerations (*), so I'd much, *much* rather write:
>
> class Color(Enum):
>   RED, BLUE, GREEN
>
> Yes, the implementation is messy, but it can be documented and tested
> well, and it's fairly small and confined. But this is a matter of
> preference, and I can see your point (Guido) about preferring the more
> explicit syntax in order to avoid too much magic.
>
> Eli
>
> (*) And where I do care, I'd still enjoy them being generated
> automatically.
>

I'm of the opinion that the most fundamental property of an enum is that it
can generate its values automatically. Everything else is a nice-to-have,
but without that property it's not much use as an enum.

Tim Delaney
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