[Tutor] Python Version of "enum" ?

[Danny Yoo]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Gooch, John wrote:

> Is there an equivalent of C++'s 'enum' keyword to set a number of named
> constants ( like so )
> enum {
> 	OFF,
> 	ON,
> 	UNKNOWN
> };
>
> in Python? It makes reading the code a lot simpler, as opposed to having
> to look up what a status of "1" means, it can be replaced with "ON",
> which is much easier to understand.

Hi John,

Peter Norvig has written an answer for this infrequently answered
question.  *grin* Here you go:

    http://www.norvig.com/python-iaq.html

I hope this helps!