#2502: add example how to do enum types with named tuples.

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Georg Brandl 2008-03-28 12:58:26 +00:00
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@ -567,6 +567,16 @@ by the :mod:`csv` or :mod:`sqlite3` modules::
for emp in map(EmployeeRecord._make, cursor.fetchall()):
print emp.name, emp.title
Named tuples can also be used to generate enumerated constants:
.. testcode::
def enum(*names):
return namedtuple('Enum', ' '.join(names))(*range(len(names)))
Status = enum('open', 'pending', 'closed')
assert (0, 1, 2) == (Status.open, Status.pending, Status.closed)
In addition to the methods inherited from tuples, named tuples support
three additional methods and one attribute. To prevent conflicts with
field names, the method and attribute names start with an underscore.