Below is the excerpt from the module's docstring: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > I'm beginning to see why enum

Below is the excerpt from the module's docstring: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > I'm beginning to see why enums as a class has not yet been added to Python. > We don't want to complicate the language with too many choices, yet there is > no One Obvious Enum to fit the wide variety of use-cases: > > - named int enums (http status codes) > - named str enums (tkinter options) > - named bitmask enums (file-type options) > - named valueless enums (any random set of names) > - named valueless-yet-orderable enums (any not-so-random set of names That's probably the best succinct description of the core problem I've seen, and I've been following the various enum-related dicussions for years Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia