Designing an enumeration type (i.e. "enum") for a language may seem like a straightforward exercise, but the recently "completed" discussions over Python's PEP 435 show that it has a few wrinkles. The ...

After years of debate on the issue, a proposal to include an enumeration type in Python 3.4 has been approved. But it has already been criticized as being an awkward compromise. According to Eli ...

Enumerated types or "enums" are a feature of many languages, including Python; enums provide a convenient way to collect up a bunch of related symbols that (typically) evaluate to integer values. The ...