[Python-ideas] Enums

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jul 25 08:13:40 CEST 2011


Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Ben Finney, 25.07.2011 04:09:
>> Guido van Rossum writes:
>>
>>> For enums, I think we should just pick a solution. I'm in favor of
>>> Barry Warsaw's version, flufl.enum.
>>
>> As the maintainer of the PyPI ‘enum’ package, I also support the FLUFL's
>> ‘flufl.enum’ to be the One Obvious Way.
> 
> Never used enums in Python, and likely won't do so anywhere in the near 
> future, but I just read through the usage page at
> 
> http://packages.python.org/flufl.enum/docs/using.html
> 
> and *if* such a library gets added to the stdlib, then this is the way 
> it should work. The examples totally make sense to me.

Agreed.  +1

~Ethan~



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