OP: if you want bitmask-style enums, that's easy to code up with a derived class. The reference implementation shows how: https://bitbucket.org/stoneleaf/aenum/src/0c66e1a5ec7b76388a...
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I'm beginning to see why enums as a class has not yet been added to Python.
> We don't want to complicate the language with too many choices, yet there is
> no One Obvious Enum to fit the wide variety of use-cases:
>
> - named int enums (http status codes)
> - named str enums (tkinter options)
> - named bitmask enums (file-type options)
> - named valueless enums (any random set of names)
> - named valueless-yet-orderable enums (any not-so-random set of names
That's probably the best succinct description of the core problem I've
seen, and I've been following the various enum-related dicussions for
years
Cheers,
Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia