Enum class with ToString functionality

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

TheFlyingDutchman a écrit :
> On Sep 8, 9:52 am, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> 
>>TheFlyingDutchman a écrit :
(snip)
>>>class TestOutcomes:
>>>    PASSED = 0
>>>    FAILED = 1
>>>    ABORTED = 2
>>
>>>    def ToString(outcome):
>>>        if  outcome == TestOutcomes.PASSED:
>>>           return "Passed"
>>>        elif outcome == TestOutcomes.FAILED :
>>>           return "Failed"
>>>        else:
>>>           return "Aborted"
>>
>>>    ToString = staticmethod(ToString)
>>
(snip)
>>Technically correct, but totally unpythonic.
> 
> 
> Speaking of unpythonic, I would call
> 
>   ToString = staticmethod(ToString)
> 
> A Perlific syntax.

Nope, just a good ole HOF.

But nowadays, it's usually written this way:

@staticmethod
def some_static_method():
    pass

> 
>>May I suggest some reading ?http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
>  
> Well the Foo.Foo complaint is bogus:
> 
> from Foo import Foo
> 

Yes. And properties are bogus - just use getters and setters.

Seriously, writing Java in Python is definitively on the masochist side. 
  But if you like pain...