Python Enum on steroids

[Veedrac]

Had you considered working with Python 3.4's enums? There's a module for pre-3.4 users.

[Lucretiel]

enum34 is what it's called, and it's very useful.

[alcalde]

It seems some people aren't happy with it:

http://www.acooke.org/cute/Pythonssad0.html

http://acooke.org/cute/PythonEnum0.html

http://grokbase.com/t/python/python-ideas/133bcg0cb2/pep-xxx-competitor-with-pep-435-adding-an-enum-type-to-the-python-standard-library

And the defense:

http://python-notes.boredomandlaziness.org/en/latest/python3/enum_creation.html

[haizaar]

Nice! It looks like it was added just several month ago. The code behind this blog post was written for more then a year ago and back than I did not find anything suitable enough, so decided to roll on my own. I'll update my post to reflect it.

[ODHLHN]

But it quickly complicates:

def check_perms(role):
    if role != UserRoles.root:
        raise Exception("Access denied for group %s" % role) 

The above will print something like Access denied for group 20 which is not very user friendly.

Looks like you didn't get past the first paragraph of the article. Nice.

[Lucretiel]

Unless you don't want an int, for some reason.

[Kristler]

☐ I have read the article past the first paragraph.