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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu May 2 17:47:47 CEST 2013

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On May 02, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote: Why isn't getattr() for lookup by name good enough?

Because it will find things that are not enum items, e.g. 'str'. Why does that matter?

I claim it doesn't.

The name lookup is only relevant if you already know that you have a valid name of an enum in the class, e.g. if you know that a Color name was written earlier. If you don't, you should do some other check, e.g. "if x in Color:". (Note that from this you cannot derive that Color[x] should work.)

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