[Python-Dev] PEP 435 doesn't help with bitfields [Was: Re: PEP 435 (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Tue May 14 07:01:26 CEST 2013

On 5/13/2013 7:36 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

2) Is something like demo2 interesting to anyone but me? Of course, I think it would be great for reporting flag values using names rather than a number representing combined bit fields. No idea. ;)

There's been some talk of Enum-ing constants in the Socket library... I'm no socket programmer, so I'd have to go read the APIs to know if any of them are for bitfields which are typically combined together with | or + being the typical operators... and which would convert them to plain integers, and lose the reporting by name. That's the problem I see with IntEnum used for bitfields.

For simple selection of choices, one choice per parameter, Enum will be great. But for bitfields, it is lacking.

Sorry if this sounds repetitious, but all the other times I've mentioned it, it has been in a big discussion of other stuff too.

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