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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:01 PM Christopher Reimer <
christopher_reimer@icloud.com> wrote:

> On 4/21/2016 9:46 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > Oh! and Enum!!!  ;)
>
> OMG! I totally forgot about Enum. Oh, look. Python supports Enum. Now I
> don't have to roll my own!
>
> Hmm... What do we use Enum for? :)
>

You can use Enum in certain circumstances to replace int or str constants.
It can help avoid mistyping mistakes and might help your IDE give
auto-complete suggestions. I haven't found a good use for them myself, but
I'd been mostly stuck in Python 2 until recently.