[Python-ideas] PEP XXX - Competitor with PEP 435: Adding an enum type to the Python standard library

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Mar 12 01:14:44 CET 2013


On 03/11/2013 05:07 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>> I missed the significance of "Sequence" in the
>> PEP (it's not a very obvious name for this functionality).
>
> It seems like an extremely bad name to me, since the word
> "sequence" already has a quite different technical meaning
> in Python.
>
> Maybe "Ordinal"?

Naming has never been my strong point.  How about `Integer` to match
`String`?

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~Ethan~



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