[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following class - > > class TestOutcomes: > PASSED = 0 > FAILED = 1 > ABORTED = 2 > > plus the following code - > > testResult = TestOutcomes.PASSED > > testResultAsString > if testResult == TestOutcomes.PASSED: > testResultAsString = "Passed" > elif testResult == TestOutcomes.FAILED : > testResultAsString = "Failed" > else: > testResultAsString = "Aborted" > > But it would be much nicer if I had a function to covert to string as > part of the TestOutcomes class. How would I implement this? > > Thanks, > > Barry >
class Outcome(object): PASSED, FAILED, ABORTED = range(3) @classmethod def named(class_, value): for name in dir(class_): if name[0] != '_' and getattr(class_, name) == value: return name raise ValueError('Unknown value %r' % value) Outcome.named(2) -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list