On Thu, 2 May 2013 13:48:24 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > > On May 02, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: > > > > >5) accept that convenience-created enums have restrictions such as no > > >picklability and point them out in the docs? > > > > That would work fine for me, but ultimately I'm with Guido. I just don't > > want > > to have to pass the module name in. > > > > The problem with (5) is this: you use some library that exports an > enumeration, and you want to use pickling. Now you depend on the way the > library implemented - if it used the convenience API, you can't pickle. If > it used the class API, you can.
A good reason to ditch the function-based syntax. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
