[Python-Dev] mention aenum in the Enum docs? (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed May 10 20:50:54 EDT 2017

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 10:05:43AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

A comment on a recent SO answer [1] wondered why my aenum library wasn't mentioned in the docs to help guide people that needed/wanted more advanced Enum options to it.

I know that the std lib is where good modules go to die :-)

Is the aenum module feature complete? Is it ready to die move to the std lib?

If aenum is not going through active development, perhaps the missing features should be ported to enum and then there's no need to recommend a second module.

Pros: - drop-in replacement for the stdlib Enum - has many advanced features such as - auto init building - multi-value members - duplicate value but non-aliasing members - etc.

Those three advanced features sound useful. Is there a reason enum doesn't support them?

-- Steve

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