Ethan Furman added the comment: Since we're using re as the sample, here's where re.I is defined:
Lib/re.py: --------- I = IGNORECASE = sre_compile.SRE_FLAG_IGNORECASE # ignore case As already mentioned, re.I results in 2, and a re.compile object is not usable as a re flag. > Also, I suppose that means you've given up on the autocreation We decided auto-created values were too magical for the stdlib (see issue26988). They will exist in my aenum package, though. > (since the values _are_ semantical here), The values have meaning because the underlying library gave them meaning; so assuming a type of Flags are used, they will be IntFlags. > and I suppose you'll require all the declared values to be powers of 2. Nope. You are welcome to give more meaningful names to different combinations of powers of two. > With those conditions, I think this is a good enhancement of Python. Hopefully you still think so. ;) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23591> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
