On 2021-08-30 09:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 2:19 AM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
To be honest, I haven't really used Enums much (in fact, only to mirror C enums
in extension code), but part of that is because I have yet to see what the
point is in Python, over simple string flags.
I suppose they provide a real advantage for static typing, but other than that
I just don't see it.
They provide a *huge* advantage when they can be combined. It's easy
to accept a flags argument that is the bitwise Or of a collection of
flags, and then ascertain whether or not a specific flag was included.
The repr of such a combination is useful and readable, too.
In general I find that harder to grok than just using separate boolean
arguments for each flag.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
--author unknown
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