On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 04:24 pm, solipsis at pitrou.net wrote: >> >> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:08:36 +0100 >> Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.niksic at avl.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 11/22/2010 04:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> > +1. The problem with int constants is that the int gets printed, not >>> > the name, when you dump them for debugging purposes :) >>> >>> Well, it's trivial to subclass int to something with a nicer __repr__. >>> PyGTK uses that technique for wrapping C enums: >> >> Nice. It might be useful to add a private _Constant class somewhere for >> stdlib purposes. > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0354/ Indeed, it is difficult to do enums is such a way that they feel sufficiently robust to be worth the effort of including them (although these days, I would be inclined to follow the namedtuple API style rather than that presented in PEP 354). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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