PEP 354: Enumerations in Python

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <bignose+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> PEP:            354
> Title:          Enumerations in Python
> Version:        $Revision: 42186 $
> Last-Modified:  $Date: 2006-01-26 11:55:20 +1100 (Thu, 26 Jan 2006) $

Most people seem to be unopposed or in favour of some kind of
enumeration mechanism making it at least as far as the standard
library.

As I understand it, the current outstanding debates are::

  * Builtin types versus stdlib module (maybe 'collections')

  * Ordered sequences versus unordered iterables

  * Immutable versus mutable

  * Bad comparisons: raise exception versus return NotImplemented

  * Terminology for each of these concepts

Any new issues before I make a revised draft?

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Ben Finney