How should I best emulate and/or avoid enum's in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

The builtin way to do enums is:

(FOO, BAR, BAZ) = range(3)

which works fine for small sets, but has some drawbacks:

• you need to count the number of elements by hand
• you can't skip values
• if you add one name, you also need to update the range number

For a complete enum implementation in python, see: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/67107/