(not really) randon ideas

[oluoluolu]

I have been programming in Python for many years, and I generally have
run into alot of the same problems repeatedly.

What is the consensus on these ideas please?

* enums
* constants
* an imagefile ala smalltalk
* symbols ala lisp/scheme

thx in advance

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

I have been programming in Python for many years, and I generally have
run into alot of the same problems repeatedly.

What is the consensus on these ideas please?

* enums

There's a cookbook recipe:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413486

And a package in the Chesseshop:

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/enum/0.4.1

* constants

People tend to write the names of constants all uppercase. Example::

ANSWER = 42

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

 

[oluoluolu]

regarding the constants, this is more for the "vm" (and type safety).
actually enums, constants and symbols can prolly be implemented more or
less the same.

 

[Tim Roberts]

regarding the constants, this is more for the "vm" (and type safety).
actually enums, constants and symbols can prolly be implemented more or
less the same.

Ewww. For some reason, there's just something about the vulgar construct
"prolly" that really irks me, even more than "sth" for "something" or
"proggie" for "program".

You're only saving two keystrokes over the correct word, "probably", and
because it's split between the hands, "probably" is probably faster to
type.