new enum idiom

[Steve Holden]

"Rainer Deyke" <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote in message
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> > Fine, but can't be "*much* easier" -- it's just one .split away from
> > the 'bar=32' proposal to ('bar','32'), after all:-).
>
> The problem with 'bar=32' is that it cannot be interleaved with unnumbered
> args:
>
> >>> enum('foo', bar=32, 'fee')
> SyntaxError: non-keyword arg after keyword arg
>
> Even if it could, there would be no way to determine the order of the
> arguments and therefore no way to find out that 'fee' should have a value
of
> 33.
>
This seems a little obtuse. What would be wrong with

    enum('foo', 'bar=32', 'fee')

regards
 Steve