[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib

Tue Nov 23 16:30:53 CET 2010

Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 15:15 +0000, Michael Foord a écrit :
> There are still two reasonable APIs (unless you have changed your mind 
> and think that sticking with plain integers is best), of which I prefer 
> the latter:
>> SOME_CONST = Constant('SOME_CONST', 1)
> OTHER_CONST = Constant('OTHER_CONST', 2)
>> or:
>> Constants = make_constants('Constants', 'SOME_CONST OTHER_CONST', start=1)

Or:
Constants = make_constants('Constants', 'SOME_CONST OTHER_CONST', 
 values=range(1, 3))
Again, auto-enumeration is useless since it's trivial to achieve
explicitly.
Regards
Antoine.