On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > On 4/25/2013 9:19 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> > wrote: > > an enumeration of objects whose class defines __call__ would > not be so weird. > > Seriously? You'd complexificate the basic usage in order to cater for > such an esoteric use case? The *only* use cases that matter at all for > enum values are ints and strings, and even the latter could be > considered a luxury when compared to other languages' enums. > > > No, I'd look for a solution/implementation that doesn't divide objects into > "plain" and "esoteric" cases. Py3 now treats everything as objects. So an > enumeration should be able to deal with any object as a value.
I think you've lost track of the Zen of Python. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
