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Author	barry
Recipients	barry, ethan.furman, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2013-05-13.15:09:31
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On May 13, 2013, at 02:06 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > >> >I agree with Nick here, there's no reason to auto-number constants >> >in >> >Python. This is not C :-) >> >> Why should they be strings? Why not object()? > >Because strings are readable, I'd say. The repr would then be <Color.red: Color.red> Yuck. Also, you would have to allow for subclasses (e.g. IntEnum) to override auto-assignment. Clearly, you can't use strings for X = IntEnum('X', 'start middle end')

On May 13, 2013, at 02:06 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
>
>> >I agree with Nick here, there's no reason to auto-number constants
>> >in
>> >Python. This is not C :-)
>> 
>> Why should they be strings?   Why not object()?
>
>Because strings are readable, I'd say.

The repr would then be

<Color.red: Color.red>

Yuck.

Also, you would have to allow for subclasses (e.g. IntEnum) to override
auto-assignment.  Clearly, you can't use strings for

X = IntEnum('X', 'start middle end')

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