[Python-Dev] PyPy, Jython, & IronPython: Enum convenience function and pickleablity (original) (raw)
Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Thu May 2 22:48:24 CEST 2013
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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
On May 02, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>5) accept that convenience-created enums have restrictions such as no >picklability and point them out in the docs? That would work fine for me, but ultimately I'm with Guido. I just don't want to have to pass the module name in.
The problem with (5) is this: you use some library that exports an enumeration, and you want to use pickling. Now you depend on the way the library implemented - if it used the convenience API, you can't pickle. If it used the class API, you can.
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