[Python-ideas] constant/enum type in stdlib

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 17:33:35 CET 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2013, at 08:17 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
>
> >Barry, since you've obviously given this issue a lot of thought, maybe you
> >could summarize it in a PEP so we have a clear way of moving forward for
> >3.4 ?
>
> I'm happy to do so if there's a realistic chance of it being accepted.  We
> already have one rejected enum PEP (354) and we probably don't need two. ;)
>
>
Reading this thread it seems that many core devs are interested in the
feature and the discussion is mainly deciding on the exact semantics and
implementation. Even Guido didn't really speak against it (only somewhat
against adding new syntax).

Eli
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