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Author ncoghlan
Recipients alex, dilettant, eric.smith, ethan.furman, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2013-05-12.23:21:49
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Content 
The difference is the use case: dicts are a general purpose data store,
enums are typically for defining mutually exclusive named values, with
aliasing as a concession to practical reality.
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