best way to have enum-like identifiers?

[mh@pixar.com]

I currently have a 2-dim hash, indexed by two strings:

template['py']['funcpre']
template['py']['funcpost']
...

but I would prefer to have these indexed by constants of
some kind, since this seems a bit more natural:

template[py][funcpre]
template[py][funcpost]
...

Currently I'm just putting this at the top of the file:

py=1
funcpre=2
funcpost=3
...

but I'm curious if there's a better way of doing this,
some kind of enum-like thing or somesuch.

Many TIA!
Mark

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[Pete Forman]

Re: best way to have enum-like identifiers?

mh@pixar.com writes:

Currently I'm just putting this at the top of the file:
>
py=1
funcpre=2
funcpost=3
...

That can be done more compactly with

py, funcpre, funcpost = range(3)

give or take 1.

but I'm curious if there's a better way of doing this,
some kind of enum-like thing or somesuch.

https://launchpad.net/munepy describes itself as yet another Python
enum implementation. Its author is Barry Warsaw.
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