[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Jonathan Slenders]

How is this a bug? It can be implemented in Python 3, I think. Only
Enum.__metaclass__ would not be able to know the order of it's
elements. (But unless you want to do bitwise operations, it's
irrelevant. Is alphabetical order okay?)


2013/2/13 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>
>
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>
> >class Color(Enum):
> >    RED = 1
> >    GREEN = ...       # becomes 2
> >    BLUE = ...        # 3
> >    MAGENTA = 5
> >    FLUFL = ...       # 6
>
> That's pretty cute.
>
> >class Color(FlagEnum):
> >    RED = 1
> >    GREEN = ...       # becomes 2
> >    BLUE = ...        # 4
> >    MAGENTA = 16
> >    FLUFL = ...
> >
> >class Color(StringEnum):
> >    RED = ...         # becomes 'red'
> >    GREEN = ...       # etc.
> >    BLUE = ...
>
> I want to think about the latter two (especially the string one), but I've
> filed this bug to track the feature.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/flufl.enum/+bug/1124357
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry