[Python-Dev] PyPy, Jython, & IronPython: Enum convenience function and pickleablity (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Thu May 2 23:15:40 CEST 2013

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Thu, 2 May 2013 13:52:29 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote: > > Back to my question from before, though - do we have a real technical > limitation of having something like inspect.whatmoduleaminowin() > that's supposed to work for all Python code?

I already gave an answer (e.g. the debugger case), but you are free to consider it not reasonable :)

Sorry, but I do find the argument "let's not have a convenience syntax because enums created with such syntax won't pickle properly from within a debugger" not convincing enough :-) It may be just me though, and I'm open to other opinions.

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