Enums and Python

[Fred Gansevles]

In article <8iq78m$u5m$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Fred Gansevles <gansevle at cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
>
> If you use enums only as a 'conveniant way to represent values', the
> next (quick-hack, untested) might be usefull:
>
> class Enum:
>     def __init__(self, **kw):
>         self.__dict__.update(kw)
>
> enum = Enum(Tag = 0, Date = 1, Ammount = 2)
>
> print "Date-field:", enum.Date
>

It just occured to me: If you'd like the enums to be 'global', you can
use the following (also-quick-but-even-dirtyer hack):

def enum(*kw):
    globals().update(kw)

enum(Tag = 0, Date = 1, Ammount = 2)

print "Date-field:", Date

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