Antoine Pitrou wrote:
I don't understand why people insist on calling that an "enum". enum is a C legacy and it doesn't bring anything useful as I can tell.
The usefulness is that they can have a str() or repr() that displays the name of the value instead of an integer. The bool type was added for much the same reason -- otherwise we would simply have gotten builtin names False = 0 and True = 1. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
