[Tutor] parsing chemical formula

[Christian Tismer]

Tim Peters wrote:
...

> NAME, NUM, LPAREN, RPAREN, EOS = range(5)

As I see this idiom of creating ENUM-alike constants
appear again (see doctest), this deserves an entry in 
some howto. Tim, when did you start using it?
Very elegant.

ciao - chris

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