Ben Finney wrote: > This PEP specifies an enumeration data type for Python. > > An enumeration is an exclusive set of symbolic names bound to > arbitrary unique values. Values within an enumeration can be iterated > and compared, but the values have no inherent relationship to values > outside the enumeration.
-1 on the proposal as-is. I don't have many use cases for enumerations, and I don't think they merit appearing in the builtins. If you put them in the collections module instead, I'd probably be +0. > This allows the operation to succeed, evaluating to a boolean value:: > > >>> gym_night = Weekdays.wed > >>> gym_night < Weekdays.mon > False > >>> gym_night < Weekdays.wed > False > >>> gym_night < Weekdays.fri > True > >>> gym_night < 23 > False > >>> gym_night > 23 > True > >>> gym_night > "wed" > True > >>> gym_night > Grades.B > True For the few cases of enumerations that I've needed, I've never wanted them to be comparable with <, >, etc. If there were two classes, say ``collections.Enum`` and ``collections.OrderedEnum`` where only the latter made the enumerated items comparable, you might even get me as high as +0.5. (I only care about the non-comparable one, but I understand that others may have a need for the comparable one.) STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
