Ethan Furman added the comment:
Barry: po-tay-to / po-tah-to ;)
Serhiy: The set is known and finite, just scattered over different
expensive-to-load modules.
Decision:
Since no one is jumping up and down with anticipation over this feature, I'll
let it stay on SO.
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resolution:
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
To me, the essential property of enums in other languages is that there is
known limited set of possible values. If this set is dynamically extended, this
is not enum.
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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
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Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:
I was thrown off a bit by the description below. it's not that the OP wants to
generate an Enum lazily (the functional API lets them do that), it's that the
OP wants to *extend* an Enum lazily.
Seems like a pretty obscure use case to me. I'd vote for
New submission from Ethan Furman:
In this SO question [1] the OP has a need to generate an Enum lazily. I
created an `extend_enum` function to do so. By the time I was done I realized
I would not want anyone to have to create that function by hand, nor keep it up
to date (should we ever
