Ethan Furman added the comment: > For me, it is an issue. But you probably already know that. >(http://bugs.python.org/issue26988#msg273125) (That's "the other thread".)
Ah, thanks. I had forgotten about that one. For what it's worth, I largely agree with you there. > Try to explain: how exactly is that different than wanting "file.close" > to close the file, or "quit" to quit the REPL? Enum is already full of magic: - class is iterable - class is indexable - member attributes are instances of class - members are all created when class is created - etc. Flag, especially, needs a way to specify "give me a working value" even when the user doesn't care what that value is (as your, um, interesting examples have shown ;). Whatever we choose as the placeholder (since it has been decided that no placeholder is too magical) will still have magic involved, so I don't want parenthesis there disguising that. I'd also be happy with _member_ instead of _auto_ -- maybe that makes even more sense. > And I surely hope we're not going in that direction [dropping parens from > function calls]. No, we're not. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23591> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
