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[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib

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Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> I don't understand why people insist on calling that an "enum". enum is
> a C legacy and it doesn't bring anything useful as I can tell.

The usefulness is that they can have a str() or repr() that
displays the name of the value instead of an integer.

The bool type was added for much the same reason -- otherwise
we would simply have gotten builtin names False = 0 and
True = 1.

-- 
Greg

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