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Title: Add enum() example for named tuples
Type: Stage:
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 2.6
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Status: closed Resolution: rejected
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Assigned To: georg.brandl Nosy List: amaury.forgeotdarc, calvin, georg.brandl, rhettinger
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2008-03-28 11:05 by calvin, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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0001-Add-enum-example-for-named-tuples.patch calvin, 2008-03-28 11:05
Messages (5)
msg64627 - (view) Author: Bastian Kleineidam (calvin) Date: 2008-03-28 11:05
Named tuples can also be used to emulate enum datatypes. The patch adds
an example to the documentation.
msg64629 - (view) Author: Bastian Kleineidam (calvin) Date: 2008-03-28 11:22
The motivation for this patch is that documenting a single function
adding enum-like capabilities would hopefully eliminate the numerous
"enum" recipies already out there, each handling things a little different.
msg64635 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2008-03-28 12:58
Fixed example (a * was missing) and committed as r62007. Thanks!
msg64636 - (view) Author: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (amaury.forgeotdarc) * (Python committer) Date: 2008-03-28 13:05
Raymond, is this kind of recipes worth adding to the 'collections' module?

Maybe with the following form:

def enum(*valuenames):
     return namedtuple('Enum', valuenames)(*range(len(valuenames)))
msg64689 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2008-03-29 09:58
Thanks for asking. This should not go into the collections module.

The concept makes more sense in statically compiled languages.  In 
Python, we typically write something like "RED, ORANGE, YELLOW = range
(3)" at the module level.  That is faster and still allows prefixing 
using the module name (for example, re.MULTILINE).
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:32adminsetgithub: 46754
2008-03-29 09:58:02rhettingersetresolution: accepted -> rejected
messages: + msg64689
2008-03-28 13:05:27amaury.forgeotdarcsetnosy: + amaury.forgeotdarc, rhettinger
messages: + msg64636
2008-03-28 12:58:44georg.brandlsetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: accepted
messages: + msg64635
2008-03-28 11:22:57calvinsetmessages: + msg64629
2008-03-28 11:05:19calvincreate