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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu May 11 03:55:02 EDT 2017 
On 11 May 2017 at 01:50, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 10:05:43AM -0700, 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 know that the std lib is where good modules go to die :-)
>
> Is the aenum module feature complete? Is it ready to ~~die~~ move to the
> std lib?

The proposal is about mentioning aenum as a 3rd party alternative in
the stdlib docs for enum (which, BTW, I think is perfectly fine and a
useful thing to do), not to bring aenum into the stdlib.

Paul
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