On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:00 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> Am I silly for wanting to make a single enum? >>> >>> I have a three-state flag, True, False or Maybe. Is is confusing or bad >>> practice to make a single enum for the Maybe case? >>> >>> >>> from enum import Enum >>> class State(Enum): >>> Maybe = 2 >>> >>> Maybe = State.Maybe >>> del State >>> >>> Is there a better way of handling a three-state flag like this? >>> >> >> Does it need to have a value of 2? If not: >> >> # Tri-state logic >> Maybe = object() > > The enum has a nice __str__ though.
Ah, good point. Then sure, go with the enum - but have a comment or docstring explaining that this is augmented with the literals True and False. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
