On 04/25/2013 09:34 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us
<mailto: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.
I think we're talking past each other (or I'm not awake yet ;).
Animals is a class. Giving Animals a parameter (such as 1 or 'ant') should return the instance that matches. This is
how classes work.
I don't understand your assertion that there is another way to call Animals...
do you mean something like:
--> MoreAnimals = Animals('MoreAnimals', 'bird worm insect')
?
--
~Ethan~
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