[Python-ideas] Change magic strings to enums

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 01:03 Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:

> On 2018-04-25 09:57, Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:
> > In the latter case rewriting EnumMeta in C
>
> ... or Cython. It's a great language and I'm sure that the Python
> standard library could benefit a lot from it.
>

No, the stdlib should not depend on Cython, no matter how great. That would
be a terrible dependency cycle.

--Guido

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