PEP 354: Enumerations in Python

[Eric Nieuwland]

On 27 feb 2006, at 10:13, Tim Chase wrote:

>> Uniqueness imposes an odd constraint that you can't have
>> synonyms in the set:
>>
>>>>> shades = enum({white:100, grey:50, gray:50, black:0})
>
> Blast, I hate responding to my own posts, but as soon as I
> hit Send, I noticed the syntax here was biffed.  Should have
> been something like
>
>>>> shades = enum(("white", 100), ("grey", 50),
> ("gray",50), ("black", 50))
>
> Same could go for days of the week:
>
>>>> dow=enum(("sunday", 0), ("monday", 1),
> ("start_of_work_week", 1), ... ("friday", 5),
> ("end_of_work_week", 5)...)

if enum would handle a dict as an input parameter by replacing it with 
the dict's iteritems() this is equivalent.

--eric