How much sanity checking is required for function inputs?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sun Apr 24 03:22:58 EDT 2016


On 04/23/2016 06:21 PM, Michael Selik wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:01 PM Christopher Reimer wrote:

>> Hmm... What do we use Enum for? :)
>
> You can use Enum in certain circumstances to replace int or str constants.
> It can help avoid mistyping mistakes and might help your IDE give
> auto-complete suggestions. I haven't found a good use for them myself, but
> I'd been mostly stuck in Python 2 until recently.

enum34 is the backport, aenum is the turbo charged version.

   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/enum34
   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aenum

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~Ethan~



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