On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Glyph, thanks for the input. I mentioned Twisted because in its code I found > a number of places with simple string enumerations used to represent state. I > was not aware of twisted.python.constants, but it doesn't appear that this > module is used at least in the places I checked.
Quite so. twisted.python.constants was created because we made the same observation that you did. Hopefully, more of these protocols will be transitioned to make use of twisted.python.constants internally. > In general, many protocols have some "state" instance var that's usually just > a string, using either predefined constants or direct string literals. Indeed. This idiom varies considerably. Another thing that Twisted needs is a mechanism for explicitly building state-machine, but that's a discussion for another day. -glyph _______________________________________________ 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
