There is a several-month-old request to add aenum's [1] AutoNumberEnum
to the stdlib [2].
The requester and two of the three developers of Enum are in favor (the
third hasn't chimed in yet).
This new addition would enable the following:
from Enum import AutoNumberEnum
class Color(AutoNumberEnum):
# auto-number magic is on
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
# magic turns off when non-enum is defined
def is_primary(self):
# typos in methods, etc, will raise
return self in (self.Red, self.Grene, self.Blue)
# typos after the initial definition stanza will raise
BlueGreen = Blue + Grene
There is, of course, the risk of typos during the initial member
definition stanza, but since this magic only happens when the user
explicitly asks for it (AutoNumberEnum), I think it is acceptable.
The `start` parameter is still available, and assigning a number is
supported (subsequent numbers will (re)start from the assigned number).
Thoughts? Opinions? Flames?
--
~Ethan~
[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aenum
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue26988
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