[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86633 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/inspect.rst Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst Lib/inspect.py Lib/test/test_inspect.py Misc/NEWS (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 14:41:05 CET 2010

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

On 04:24 pm, solipsis at pitrou.net wrote:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:08:36 +0100 Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.niksic at avl.com> wrote:

On 11/22/2010 04:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > +1.  The problem with int constants is that the int gets printed, not > the name, when you dump them for debugging purposes :) Well, it's trivial to subclass int to something with a nicer repr. PyGTK uses that technique for wrapping C enums: Nice. It might be useful to add a private Constant class somewhere for stdlib purposes. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0354/

Indeed, it is difficult to do enums is such a way that they feel sufficiently robust to be worth the effort of including them (although these days, I would be inclined to follow the namedtuple API style rather than that presented in PEP 354).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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