Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On May 13, 2013, at 02:06 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > >> >I agree with Nick here, there's no reason to auto-number constants >> >in >> >Python. This is not C :-) >> >> Why should they be strings? Why not object()? > >Because strings are readable, I'd say. The repr would then be <Color.red: Color.red> Yuck. Also, you would have to allow for subclasses (e.g. IntEnum) to override auto-assignment. Clearly, you can't use strings for X = IntEnum('X', 'start middle end') ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17961> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com