[Python-ideas] PEP for enum library type?

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/12/2013 03:09 PM, Tim Delaney wrote:
> On 13 February 2013 09:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Frankly, enums are not that useful in small programs. For large
> programs or libraries, and especially for public APIs, the extra cost
> of defining the enum shouldn't count against them.
>
> Let's just import Barry's enums into the stdlib.
>
>
> That's entirely your call. FWIW I probably won't use them, as they fail
> to meet my needs for an enum, #1 being not having to specify their
> values in any way if I don't want to. Once you get past 3 or 4 values,
> it's too easy to miss or reuse a value.

+1