[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Guido van Rossum]

Definitely they need nice reprs.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:58:44 -0800
> Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> > After all the defenses I still don't like Tim's proposed syntax. Color me
>> > Barry.
>> >
>>
>> In this case, I see no reason not to use Barry's flufl.enum - it's pretty
>> good and has been around for a while. The main advantage of Tim's
>> implementation syntax (wasn't it Michael Foord who originally proposed it?)
>> is that it lets us do less typing which is great. IOW, sure with flufl.enum
>> I can do this and be reasonably happy:
>>
>> class Color(Enum):
>>   RED = 1
>>   BLUE = 2
>>   GREEN = 3
>
> I still hope enum values are strings by default - or, if not, that they
> get nice reprs. Integer enums are only useful for interoperability with
> stubborn low-level libraries :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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