On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 06:03 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
>
>>
>> The __call__ syntax has been repurposed for the convenience API:
>>
>> --> Animals = Enum('Animals', 'ant bee cat dog')
>> --> Animals
>>
>> <Animals {ant: 1, bee: 2, cat: 3, dog: 4}>
>> --> Animals.ant
>> <EnumValue: Animals.ant [value=1]>
>> --> Animals.ant.value
>>
>> 1
>>
>> The aforementioned deprecated syntax refers to __call__ with a single
>> arguments (the convenience API by definition
>> requires more than one).
>>
>
> I don't understand why having Enum() be the convenience function rules out
> `Animals(1)` from returning `Animals.ant`.
>
Because we already have a way to do that: Animals[1]. Why do you need two
slightly different ways to do the same? Moreover, why do you want to make
Animals.__call__ behave very differently based only on the number of args?
This seems to be un-pythonic in multiple ways.
Eli
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