[Python-ideas] constant/enum type in stdlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:58:37 +1300
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > class color(enum):
> >   RED = value()
> >   WHITE = value()
> >   BLUE = value()
> 
> We could do somewhat better than that:
> 
>     class Color(Enum):
>        RED, WHITE, BLUE = range(3)
> 
> However, it's still slightly annoying that you have to
> specify how many values there are in the range() call.
> It would be even nicer it we could just use an infinite
> iterator, such as
> 
>     class Color(Enum):
>        RED, WHITE, BLUE = values()

Well, how about:

class Color(Enum):
    values = ('RED', 'WHITE', 'BLUE')

?

(replace values with __values__ if you prefer)

Regards

Antoine.