On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > I don't think extra-strong typing of constants is really useful in > practice; it smells a bit like private methods to me.
I think checking that a value comes from a particular enum *is* a degree of hand-holding. For libraries or frameworks whose users aren't expected to know them exhaustively, making reasonable checks of parameters can substantially reduce the number of ways it can be used incorrectly. Outside performance critical code, this is a win. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at fdrake.net> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ 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
