[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Apr 27 23:57:11 CEST 2013


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

It seems to me that the most common case will be a simple name mapping, in which case one can do:

Planet = Enum.make('Planet', 'MERCURY VENUS EARTH') and be done with it.

That looks horrible.

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)



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