[Python-Dev] objections to renaming enumobject.h/c in 3.4?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Aug 2, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking around the Objects directory and noticed that we have enumobject.h/c with the enumobject structure for "enumerate" and "reversed". This is somewhat confusing now with Lib/enum.py and will be doubly confusing if we ever decide to have a C implementation of enums.
> 
> Any objections to renaming the files and the internal structure & static functions with s/enum/enumerate/ ? This would more accurately reflect the use of the code, and avoid confusion with enums. These structures/types are not part of the stable ABI defined by PEP 384.


I wouldn't mind renaming enumobject.c/h to enumerateobject.c/h, but I think it is going overboard to rename all the internal structures and static functions.  The latter is entirely unnecessary.  The C language itself has enums and there has never been any confusion with the enumerate iterator.


Raymond




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