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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun May 5 01:52:12 CEST 2013


Hm. Trailing underscores look really weird to me.

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 05/04/2013 07:01 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

On 5/4/2013 2:42 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: I'm now -1 on my own asdict() suggestion, due to the general name clash problem for arbitrary enums. To avoid the name collision, namedtuple calls this asdict().

Although I recall Raymond told me he should have called it asdict(), and reserved all identifiers with trailing underscores. /arry


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