On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:34:39 +1000, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 April 2013 04:10, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 13, 2013, at 08:37 AM, Tim Delaney wrote: > > > > >Just using definition order as the stable iteration order would do the > > >trick - no need for any comparisons at all. Subclasses (e.g. IntEnum) can > > >then override it. > > > > I think this isn't possible if we want to keep backward compatibility with > > earlier Pythons, which I want to do. > > Do you want it compatible with Python 2.x? In that case I don't see a way > to do it - getting definition order relies on __prepare__ returning an > ordered dict, and __prepare__ of course is only available in 3.x.
It seems strange to limit a new Python3 feature to the Python2 feature set. Just saying :) --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com