Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 713ee49ec3ba by Berker Peksag in branch 'default':
Issue #21706: Add a versionchanged directive to the functional API docs.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/713ee49ec3ba
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Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset ec016ba862ba by Ethan Furman in branch 'default':
Close issue21706: add 'start' parameter to functional API
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ec016ba862ba
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Looks sensible to me. Except for being name-only, this duplicates the api of
enumerate.
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Dmitry Korchemny added the comment:
I think that the situation when you want start numbering from 0 is rather
common, especially when you need to define bit fields as enumeration or when
you need to implement an interface with other languages (e.g., C).
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New submission from Dmitry Korchemny:
In enum module the functional API for enum creation has the following signature:
Enum(value='NewEnumName', names=..., *, module='...', qualname='...',
type=mixed-in class)
so that the numeration always starts with 1. In some cases it is convenient to
Changes by Zachary Ware zachary.w...@gmail.com:
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Ethan Furman added the comment:
That is certainly nicer than the current idiom:
Animal = Enum('Animal', zip('ant bee cat dog'.split(), range(4)))
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Eli Bendersky added the comment:
Is it really worthwhile to complicate the API for the sake of providing a less
flexible solution for rare cases that saves a few keystrokes?
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Ethan Furman added the comment:
Playing devil's advocate:
The issue is not so much the keystrokes saved as the improvement in reading and
understanding what was intended. If you are happy with starting at 1 the idiom
is easy to both write, read, and understand; but if you want some other
