[Python-ideas] Enums

[Michael Foord]

On 29 July 2011 01:03, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 29 July 2011 00:58, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
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>> > Why not Colors.inject(__name__)?
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>> Because enums aren't import enough to warrant introducing little
>> atrocities into the language.
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> Uh ?? It's the same code just taking a module name instead of requiring you
> to pull the module out of sys.modules yourself. It's not an atrocity at all.
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To make it clear, the one-line-works-everywhere alternative people will use
is:

    Colors.inject(sys.modules[__name__])

Which is clearly worse.

Michael


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> Michael
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>> Raymond
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>> P.S.  I used the term "language" instead of stdlib because I expect
>> enums to be like decorators and context managers in that they
>> will be used almost everywhere -- you won't be able to ignore them.
>> Effectively, they will become a core language feature.
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