[Python-Dev] AutoNumber Enum (original) (raw)

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 02:33:22 EDT 2016


It may be worth mentioning that pandas Categoricals are mutable and zero-based: https://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/categorical.html

Serialization to SQL and CSV is (also?) lossy, though:

https://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/categorical.html#getting-data-in-out

https://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/io.html#io-stata-categorical On 06/29/2016 03:40 PM, Roberto Martínez wrote:

Why the 'start' parameter default is 1? 0 (zero) is more consistent with

other parts of the language: indexes, enumerate, range...

An excerpt from [1]:

The reason for defaulting to 1 as the starting number and not 0 is that 0 > is False in a boolean sense, but enum members all evaluate to True. >

Ethan

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#functional-api


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