Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>:
> On 2016-04-13, Michael Selik <michael.se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> An Enum corresponds to "nominal" data that is coded as a number
>> simply for storage rather than meaning.
>
> FWIW, as an old Pascal programmer, I too would have been surprised
> that an "enum" is not ordinal and doesn't support a next/prev and
> iteration.
>
> As an old C programmer, not so much. :)
>From the Pascal point of view, the "number for storage" seems odd. Why
not:
class Color(enum.Enum):
red = "red"
blue = "blue"
green = "green"
or:
class Color(enum.Enum):
red = object()
blue = object()
green = object()
or:
class Color(enum.Enum):
red
blue
green
This last one is to the point but raises a NameError.
Personally, I have not found enum.Enum all that appealing. If I have
needed such enums in my code, I have usually just defined:
class MyClass:
RED = "RED"
BLUE = "BLUE"
GREEN = "GREEN"
Marko
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