[Python-Dev] enum discussion: can someone please summarize open issues? (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu May 2 16:58:13 CEST 2013


On May 02, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote:

Why isn't getattr() for lookup by name good enough? Because it will find things that are not enum items, e.g. 'str'.

Why does that matter?

-Barry



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