On 04/26/2013 12:34 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Or if, as Guido says, the only sensible things to use
as enum values are ints and strings, just leave anything
alone that isn't one of those.
The standard Java documentation on enums:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.html
has an example enum of a "Planet", a small record type containing mass
and radius--each of which are floats. I don't know whether or not it
constitutes good programming, but I'd be crestfallen if Java enums were
more expressive than Python enums ;-)
FWIW I'm +0.5 on "the enum metaclass ignores callables and
descriptors". This seems reasonably Pythonic, much more so than "ignore
everything except ints and strings". And as long as we're
special-casing it I think we should opt for flexibility. Certainly I see
nothing wrong with enums of float, complex, Decimal, and Fraction, so I
don't see a good place to draw the line with a whitelist.
//arry/
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