I think you had good reason to call it EnumMeta though: to better distinguish "the enum meta type" (i.e. EnumMeta) from "enum types" (i.e. instances of EnumMeta).
Cheers, Nick. On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, 9:17 am Ethan Furman, <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > The question: > > Can we change the name of classes if we keep the old name as an alias? > > The specifics: > > When Enum was first created for 3.4 I thought the name `EnumMeta` was > clever and appropriate. However, in the intervening years an error > message has occasionally popped up with mention of an "EnumMeta object", > and it invariably makes me think harder about what object it's talking > about than I think I should have to. > > I would like to rename `EnumMeta` to `EnumType`, with an assignment of > `EnumMeta = EnumType` at the end. The only affect this should have is > that those occasional error messages will now say "EnumType object" > which will fit my brain better. > > Since we are allowed to change `repr()`s between major releases I thought > this might be allowed, but wanted to check. > > -- > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/message/A6B52BFBLLOSKEX2GXUKNBFPXREO5PKB/ > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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