Enums and Python

[Fred Gansevles]

In article <ShZ35.11603$Uw3.753134 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
  "William Dandreta" <wjdandreta at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> What I am doing is reading a comma delimited text file like this
>
> line = AB12345,20000621,3.56,...
>
> fields = splitfields(line,',')
>
> recognizing that
>
> fields[Date][:5]  is the year
>
> is more obvious and less cryptic than
>
> fields[1][:5]
>

If you use enums only as a 'conveniant way to represent values', the
next (quick-hack, untested) might be usefull:

class Enum:
    def __init__(self, **kw):
        self.__dict__.update(kw)

enum = Enum(Tag = 0, Date = 1, Ammount = 2)

print "Date-field:", enum.Date

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