On Aug 06, 2013, at 02:36 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: >Personally, I dislike all non-simple uses of Enums. One such use is adding >behavior to them. This can always be split to separate behavior from the >Enum itself, and I would prefer that. We went to great lengths to ensure >that things work in expected ways, but heaping additional features (even as >separate decorators) is just aggravating thiings. So -1 from me. > >Finally, I suggest we exercise restraint in adding more capabilities to >enums in 3.4; enums are a new creature for Python and it will be extremely >useful to see them used in the wild for a while first. We can enhance them >in 3.5, but premature enhancement is IMHO much more likely to do harm than >good.
As you can probably guess, I fully agree. I also agree with Nick's suggestion to remove the advanced examples from the documentation. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
