Proposal for adding symbols within Python

[Björn Lindström]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> writes:

> Why does the byte string "\x6f\x70\x65\x6e\x65\x64" have intrinsic
> meaning when the int 0 doesn't? It certainly doesn't mean anything to
> non-English speakers.
>
> If all you want is human readable byte strings, then just use them:
>
> class MyFile:
>     def open(self):
>         self.state = "opened"
>     def close(self):
>         self.state = "closed"

So, I guess no one read my explanation of why this an issue about more
than implementing enums (which is fairly trivial, as we have seen).

-- 
Björn Lindström <bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se>
Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden