[Python-Dev] Best practices for Enum (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Mon May 13 12:14:04 CEST 2013

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to ask for a little restraint and for there to be individual cost/benefit evaluations for each case.

+1

For external constants, some thought needs to be given to: * is the current API working just fine (i.e. decimal's ROUNDDOWN)

For compatibility with the Python version, I recently changed the rounding constants of the C version to strings. This was at the request of a user who wanted to exchange (Decimal, ROUNDING) pickles between the versions.

I think the strings are working fine and personally I have no plans to change the type again.

The episode shows that pickling backwards compatibility is one thing to consider, but I'm probably stating the obvious here. :)

Stefan Krah

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