[Python-Dev] re: PEP 279 revisited, formally
Tim Peters
tim.one@comcast.net
2002年4月26日 11:58:06 -0400
[Guido]
> ...
> So enumerate() it is. (Specifically not enum() because of the C/C++
> meaning of that word.)
The C/C++ meaning isn't a barrier to me: a C enum decl without embedded '='
must associate 0 with the first name, 1 with the second name, and so on.
Indeed, if the Python enum returned pairs in (value, index) order,
dict(enum(['apple', 'pear', 'godzilla'])
would create the dict
{'apple': 0, 'pear': 1, 'godzilla': 2}
which is about as close to the C
enum {apple, pear, godzilla};
/* now apple==0, pear==1, godzilla==2 */
as you can get with a Python function.