[issue27877] Add recipe for "valueless" Enums to docs

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Ethan Furman added the comment: Thanks for the patch, John and Emanuel! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

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Ethan Furman added the comment: New changeset 871bdb06c1cf by Ethan Furman in branch 'default': add recipes for pseudo-valueless enums https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/871bdb06c1cf -- ___ Python tracker __

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John Hagen added the comment: Emanuel, I like your rewording. Uploaded a new patch incorporating it. -- Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file44252/issue27877.johnthagen.02.patch ___ Python tracker

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Emanuel Barry added the comment: The patch doesn't apply. I manually copy-pasted the lines in the source and generated a new one. I would probably rephrase "these values hold no meaning and should not be used" into "the values are not important" or something along those lines. -- nosy

[issue27877] Add recipe for "valueless" Enums to docs

John Hagen added the comment: Patch attached. -- keywords: +patch Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file44249/issue27877.johnthagen.01.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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John Hagen added the comment: Raymond, thanks for your consideration and input. I'll work on a small patch unless I hear from Ethan that he'd rather do it. I'm happy to defer to his expertise. I did try out None as a value just to be sure that that didn't work as it would not be a bad altern

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Raymond Hettinger added the comment: After a little more thought, I think this would be a worthwhile recipe and would help communicate the notion that the value has no particular meaning. -- ___ Python tracker __

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Raymond Hettinger added the comment: -0 I concur with OP's observation that "object() returns a new unique value while conveying that that value should not be expected to be used in any meaningful way" and that this recipe could help reinforce that notion. That said, the idiomatic way to comm

[issue27877] Add recipe for "valueless" Enums to docs

New submission from John Hagen: Many programming languages allow the developer to define a enum without specifying values when there would be no significance to those values. Adding some kind of support in the stdlib itself was rejected due to the high degree of magic that would be needed: ht