[Python-Dev] backported Enum (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Jun 16 15:17:31 CEST 2013

Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:

Thank you for the offer, but I think I'll go with GPS's idea of calling it enum34.

That name will be confusing once Python 3.5 exists (even as a development version). I'd argue that it is confusing even now, since this is a backport for Python version earlier than Python 3.4.

The name ‘stdlib.enum’ avoids these problems, do you think that is suitable?

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