[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library (original) (raw)
Rurpy rurpy at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 21 07:44:31 CEST 2013
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On 04/20/2013 10:55 PM, Rurpy wrote:
[...] But it is not true that unique values are required for storing enumeration values in a database.
I should have added that allowing mixed types for values (e.g. as discussed in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125322.html) is far more problematic for database storage than non-unique values are. Nearly all databases (Sqlite being an exception) don't allow different types in a column. (Not sure if mixed types is still an open issue or not...)
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