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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri May 3 11:49:13 CEST 2013

Le Fri, 03 May 2013 19:40:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> a écrit :

On 03/05/13 18:42, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Fri, 3 May 2013 09:14:22 +1000, > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :

>> I would suggest moving the field names into the class header for a >> class based convenience API: >> >> class Animal(Enum, members='cat dog'): pass > > This looks good to me (assuming some people don't like the > special attribute scheme). The problem is that this is not an expression, it is a statement. The advantage of the convenience function is not just that it is shorter, but that it is an expression.

What does that change exactly?

Regards

Antoine.

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