[Python-Dev] enum discussion: can someone please summarize open issues?

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/04/2013 04:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sat, 4 May 2013 16:42:08 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Am 04.05.2013 01:22, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
>>>> On Sat, 04 May 2013 11:15:17 +1200
>>>> Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>>> Eli Bendersky wrote:
>>>>>> I'm just curious what it is about enums that sets everyone on a "let's
>>>>>> make things safer" path. Python is about duck typing, it's absolutely
>>>>>> "unsafe" in the static typing sense, in the most fundamental ways
>>>>>> imaginable.
>>>>>
>>>>> This isn't about catching bugs in the program, it's
>>>>> about validating user input. That's a common enough
>>>>> task that it deserves to have a convenient way to
>>>>> do it correctly.
>>>>
>>>> +1. An enum is basically a bidirectional mapping between some raw
>>>> values and some "nice" instances, so it deserves a well-defined lookup
>>>> operation in each direction.
>>
>> As I see it, there are 3 possible ways forward here:
>
> 4. Offer classmethods named Enum.by_name() and Enum.by_value().
> Simple and explicit.

And then you can't have enum items named by_name and by_value.

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~Ethan~