[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/13/2013 05:58 PM, Ryan Hiebert wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Jan Kaliszewski <zuo at chopin.edu.pl> wrote:
>
>> and maybe also:
>>
>>     class Color(Enum):
>>         # 0     1     2     3
>>         RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, *end = seq()
>>
>>     class Color(Enum):
>>         # 3     4     5     6
>>         RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, *end = seq(3)
>>
>>     class Flag(Enum):
>>         # 1    2    4    8    16
>>         FOO, BAR, BAZ, BOO, SPAM, *end = flags()
>>
>> (yes, it *is* possible to implement it without playing with stack frames...)
>
> This suggestion interests me most. Would it require language changes for that *end stuff?

Already is, since 3.0 I believe.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3132/

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~Ethan~