Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs?

From	Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs?
Date	2016-04-24 00:22 -0700
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On 04/23/2016 06:21 PM, Michael Selik wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:01 PM Christopher Reimer wrote:

>> 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.

enum34 is the backport, aenum is the turbo charged version.

   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/enum34
   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aenum

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~Ethan~

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Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-04-24 00:22 -0700

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