On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, at 18:01, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote: > Personally I was a fan of the Enum approach. People dislike it because > it is not “Pythonic”, but imho that is an accident of history because > Enums only appeared (iirc) in Python 3.4. In fact, they are the right > data structure for this particular problem, so for my money we should > *make it* Pythonic by starting to use it everywhere where we have a > finite list of choices.
The enum definitely feels like the right abstraction. But the resulting API is clunky because of naming and top-level scarcity. Hence the suggestion to tag it onto np.copy, but there is an argument to be made for consistency by placing all enums under np.flags or similar. Still, np.flags.copy.IF_NEEDED gets long. Stéfan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
