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Sun Apr 28 03:09:02 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125653.html

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> class Planet(
>              Enum,
>              names='''
>                    MERCURY
>                    VENUS
>                    EARTH
>                    MARS
>                    SATURN
>                    JUPITER
>                    URANUS
>                    PLUTO
>                    ''',
>               ):
>     '''Planets of the Solar System'''
>
> Not sure I like that.  Ah well.

The problem with this and similar proposals is that it puts things
inside string quotes that belong outside them.

--
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library