[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib (original) (raw)

Isaac Morland ijmorlan at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Nov 23 18:32:15 CET 2010


On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

We already have a bunch of bizarrely unrelated stuff in collections (such as Callable), so we could put enum there too.

Why not just "enum" (i.e., "from enum import [...]" or "import enum.[...]")? Enumerations are one of the basic kinds of types overall (speaking informally and independent of any specific language) - they aren't at all exotic. And "Flat is better than nested", after all.

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