On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On May 02, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: > >>Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> Why isn't getattr() for lookup by name >>> good enough? >> >>Because it will find things that are not enum items, >>e.g. '__str__'. > > Why does that matter?
I claim it doesn't. The name lookup is only relevant if you already know that you have a valid name of an enum in the class, e.g. if you know that a Color name was written earlier. If you don't, you should do some other check, e.g. "if x in Color:". (Note that from this you cannot derive that Color[x] should work.) -- --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
