Tricks to do "enums"?
Courageous
jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Mon May 8 00:39:53 EDT 2000
You shouldn't be if your using them like enums. Your not even
> doing string comparisons. Python is byte compiled. Strings that
> appear in the source are interned. Comparing two interned
> strings is just a pointer comparison.
Oh, I see what you're saying. So if I compare mymodule.ALPHA
to an attribute thay may or may not be set to mymodle.ALPHA,
I can do an identity-compare. Nifty.
Thanks.
C/
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