[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib

[Isaac Morland]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> We already have a bunch of bizarrely unrelated stuff in collections
> (such as Callable), so we could put enum there too.

Why not just "enum" (i.e., "from enum import [...]" or "import 
enum.[...]")?  Enumerations are one of the basic kinds of types overall 
(speaking informally and independent of any specific language) - they 
aren't at all exotic.  And "Flat is better than nested", after all.

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