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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat May 4 08:10:43 CEST 2013

Am 04.05.2013 01:22, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

On Sat, 04 May 2013 11:15:17 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Eli Bendersky wrote: > I'm just curious what it is about enums that sets everyone on a "let's > make things safer" path. Python is about duck typing, it's absolutely > "unsafe" in the static typing sense, in the most fundamental ways > imaginable.

This isn't about catching bugs in the program, it's about validating user input. That's a common enough task that it deserves to have a convenient way to do it correctly. +1. An enum is basically a bidirectional mapping between some raw values and some "nice" instances, so it deserves a well-defined lookup operation in each direction.

Agreed.

Georg

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