On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 10:21:49AM -0500, boB Stepp wrote:
> A general question about PEPs: Is there generally a PEP preceding the
> addition of any new feature to the core language or the standard
> library? I gather that even an accepted PEP (In this instance PEP
> 0435.) may not reflect the f
On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 10:00:21PM -0500, boB Stepp wrote:
>> After reading some discussion on the Python main list about the enum
>> module and some suggested changes, I thought I would read the docs on
>> it at
>> https://docs.python.org/
On 09/04/17 13:58, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> All of these can of course be done without enums. So the extra benefit
> of an enum is that the set is closed (immutable) and requires
> uniqueness: picking some other value will be an error,
Indeed, good catch. The value of an enum over an integer is
t
On 04/09/2017 01:54 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 09/04/17 04:00, boB Stepp wrote:
>
>> understandable to me, but I am having difficulty imagining where I
>> might want to use these features.
>>
>
> Steven has given the basics, here are a few more real world examples:
>
> Any kind of stat
On 09/04/17 04:00, boB Stepp wrote:
> understandable to me, but I am having difficulty imagining where I
> might want to use these features.
>
Steven has given the basics, here are a few more real world examples:
Any kind of status value:
(open,closed,opening, closing,locked) - control valve
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On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 10:00:21PM -0500, boB Stepp wrote:
> After reading some discussion on the Python main list about the enum
> module and some suggested changes, I thought I would read the docs on
> it at
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html?highlight=enum#module-enum
[...]
> And I am
After reading some discussion on the Python main list about the enum
module and some suggested changes, I thought I would read the docs on
it at
https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html?highlight=enum#module-enum
Most of the mechanics of using it, Enum in particular, seem
understandable to me,
