On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> On May 02, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: > > >5) accept that convenience-created enums have restrictions such as no > >picklability and point them out in the docs? > > That would work fine for me, but ultimately I'm with Guido. I just don't > want > to have to pass the module name in. > The problem with (5) is this: you use some library that exports an enumeration, and you want to use pickling. Now you depend on the way the library implemented - if it used the convenience API, you can't pickle. If it used the class API, you can. Eli
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