Am 04.05.2013 01:22, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > On Sat, 04 May 2013 11:15:17 +1200 > Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Eli Bendersky wrote: >> > I'm just curious what it is about enums that sets everyone on a "let's >> > make things safer" path. Python is about duck typing, it's absolutely >> > "unsafe" in the static typing sense, in the most fundamental ways >> > imaginable. >> >> This isn't about catching bugs in the program, it's >> about validating user input. That's a common enough >> task that it deserves to have a convenient way to >> do it correctly. > > +1. An enum is basically a bidirectional mapping between some raw > values and some "nice" instances, so it deserves a well-defined lookup > operation in each direction.
Agreed. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
