[Python-ideas] Optional static typing -- the crossroads

[Łukasz Langa]

On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 08/15/2014 11:56 AM, Ryan Hiebert wrote:
>> 
>> Getting an item from a class has no meaning for any classes that I’ve ever used, and I haven’t come up with any hypothetical one that would want to do that.
> 
> --> class Foo(Enum):
> ...    spam = 'meat flavored'
> ...    eggs = 'chicken by-product'
> ...
> --> Foo
> <enum 'Foo'>
> 
> --> Foo['spam']
> <Foo.spam: 'meat flavored’>

I also thought of enums. Looks fairly innocent to me, though. Do you see any cases where the two would conflict?

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