[Python-ideas] Change magic strings to enums

[Soni L.]

On 2018-04-25 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 02:13 Jacco van Dorp <j.van.dorp at deonet.nl 
> <mailto:j.van.dorp at deonet.nl>> wrote:
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>     ... Which is where the auto-completion comes in. ...
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> Designing the language with auto-complete in mind feels wrong to me. 
> It assumes a very sophisticated IDE and may lead to lazy design 
> compromises.

You can tab-complete enums (in the REPL), but not strings.
Tab-complete is not an IDE thing, it's a CPython REPL thing. It seems 
reasonable to design for it.

Any IDE worth my time would support string autocompletion, anyway. ;)

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