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[Python-Dev] mention aenum in the Enum docs?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 9 13:58:46 EDT 2017 
On 09/05/2017 18:05, Ethan Furman wrote:
> A comment on a recent SO answer [1] wondered why my aenum library wasn't 
> mentioned in the docs to help guide people that needed/wanted more 
> advanced Enum options to it.  I responded that Python was not in the 
> habit of mentioning third-party libraries in the docs.
> 
> However, I thought I would double-check here to see if it might be a 
> good idea.
> 
> Pros:
> - drop-in replacement for the stdlib Enum
> - has many advanced features such as
>    - auto __init__ building
>    - multi-value members
>    - duplicate value but non-aliasing members
>    - etc.
> - I'm the primary/only maintainer for both
> 
> Cons:
> - third-party library
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> ~Ethan~
> 
> 
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/43855536/208880

The precedent is all ready set as the third-party regex module gets a 
mention here https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html and the requests 
package here https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence
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