Python's sad, unimaginative Enum

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Chris Angelico於 2013年5月14日星期二UTC+8上午1時36分34秒寫道：
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano
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> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> > Let's look at his major criticisms:
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> > 1) values aren't automatically generated.
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> > True. So what? That is the *least* important part of enums.
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> I stopped following the -ideas threads about enums, but IIRC
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> autogeneration of values was in quite a few of the specs early on. So
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> you can probably find the arguments against it in the list archives.
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> FWIW, though, I do like C's autogeneration of enum values - but use it
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> in only a small proportion of my enums. It's not a terrible loss, but
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> it is a loss.
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> ChrisA

Because a hash table can replace the enums in other languages,
it is more pythonic to use a dictionary built first
to replace the enums.

I think it is the same style of programming  in perl and ruby.