Hi Ethan,
In general, I would say that we don't provide any backward
compatibility warranties on the exact repr() output. In practice, we
attempt to not change it unless there is a good reason for that. IMO
in your case, it's justified. When float repr() was changed, it broke
tons of doctests :-(
I think you had good reason to call it EnumMeta though: to better
distinguish "the enum meta type" (i.e. EnumMeta) from "enum types" (i.e.
instances of EnumMeta).
Cheers,
Nick.
On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, 9:17 am Ethan Furman, wrote:
> The question:
>
>Can we change the name of classes if we keep
Seems reasonable -- I think we've done this kind of thing before.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:17 PM Ethan Furman wrote:
> The question:
>
>Can we change the name of classes if we keep the old name as an alias?
>
> The specifics:
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>When Enum was first created for 3.4 I thought the name `En
