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Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport?

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Date 2014-11-27 02:17 +1100
Subject Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> wrote:
> I only mentioned it since I noticed it. I actually use Python 3 so it isn't a problem for me, but sometimes I have to teach Python 2.7 and I wanted to cover enum because it is so much nicer and easier to debug than FOO = 1 etc.
>
> However, the problem is that enum's function API doesn't play nicely with unicode literals. One solution is to use the class API instead:
>
>
> from __future__ import print_function
> from __future__ import unicode_literals
> import enum
> print(enum.version)
> class A(enum.Enum):
>    b = 1
>    c = 2
> print(A.b, A.c)

Yeah, because now "class A" is not a literal, and is therefore not
affected by the unicode_literals directive. But I think that notation
looks just fine anyway, so that would probably be the cleanest
solution.

ChrisA

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bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> - 2014-11-26 03:29 -0800
  Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 09:05 -0500
  Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 01:40 +1100
    Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> - 2014-11-26 07:14 -0800
      Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:17 +1100
  Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 10:32 -0500
  Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:46 +1100
  Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-11-26 08:58 -0800
  Re: bug or feature in enum34 py2.7 backport? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-26 16:16 -0500

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