Ethan Furman added the comment: Terry remarked: --------------- > I am puzzled by the opening statement there that > > from enum import Enum # I added this as necessary > class Season(Enum): > SPRING = Season() > > "works beautifully" at top level as it indeed raises > NameError: name 'Season' is not defined
Pay close attention to the line just before that example: > I tried having the metaclass insert an object into the custom dict > (aka namespace) returned by __prepare__; this object has the same > name as the to-be-created class. It does not raise a NameError because the name was injected via the metaclass __prepare__ method. (Or did at that time -- I don't think that bit of cleverness made the final cut.) As far as this enhancement request goes, I think the compatibility break is likely too large to have it in the 3.x series. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19979> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
