[Python-ideas] constant/enum type in stdlib

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 29 January 2013 14:00, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno
>> <jsbueno at python.org.br> wrote:
>> > This idea is not new - but it is stalled  -
>> > Last I remember it came around in Python-devel in 2010, in this thread:
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>> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/thread.html#105967
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>> FWIW, since that last discussion, I've switched to using strings for
>> my special constants, dumping them in a container if I need some kind
>> of easy validity checking or iteration.
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>> That said, an enum type may still be useful for interoperability with
>> other systems (databases, C APIs, etc).
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> I really wish there would be an enum type in Python that would make sense.
> ISTM this has been raised numerous times, but not one submitted a
> good-enough proposal.

As I pointed above, this last discussion was coming to a good term. Bad timing
and no one clearly saying, with all the words "Michael Foord, please
make this into a PEP"
made it fade away, I think.

  js
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