[Python-Dev] Enumeration items: mixed types? (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 18:27:54 CEST 2013

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

Ethan Furman wrote:

I suppose the other option is to have .value be whatever was assigned (1, 'really big country', and (8273.199, 517) ),

I thought that was the intention all along, and that we'd given up on the idea of auto-assigning integer values (because it would require either new syntax or extremely dark magic).

Yes, Guido rejected the auto-numbering syntax a while back. The only case in which auto-numbering occurs (per PEP 435) is the "convenience syntax":

Animal = Enum('Animal', 'fox dog cat')

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