[Python-Dev] PyPy, Jython, & IronPython: Enum convenience function and pickleablity (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu May 2 22:57:16 CEST 2013

On Thu, 2 May 2013 13:48:24 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

A good reason to ditch the function-based syntax.

Regards

Antoine.

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