def Enum(*names):
##assert names, "Empty enums are not supported" # <- Don't like empty enums? Uncomment!
class EnumClass(object):
__slots__ = names
def __iter__(self): return iter(constants)
def __len__(self): return len(constants)
def __getitem__(self, i): return constants[i]
def __repr__(self): return 'Enum' + str(names)
def __str__(self): return 'enum ' + str(constants)
class EnumValue(object):
__slots__ = ('__value')
def __init__(self, value): self.__value = value
Value = property(lambda self: self.__value)
EnumType = property(lambda self: EnumType)
def __hash__(self): return hash(self.__value)
def __cmp__(self, other):
# C fans might want to remove the following assertion
# to make all enums comparable by ordinal value {;))
assert self.EnumType is other.EnumType, "Only values from the same enum are comparable"
return cmp(self.__value, other.__value)
def __invert__(self): return constants[maximum - self.__value]
def __nonzero__(self): return bool(self.__value)
def __repr__(self): return str(names[self.__value])
maximum = len(names) - 1
constants = [None] * len(names)
for i, each in enumerate(names):
val = EnumValue(i)
setattr(EnumClass, each, val)
constants[i] = val
constants = tuple(constants)
EnumType = EnumClass()
return EnumType
if __name__ == '__main__':
print '\n*** Enum Demo ***'
print '--- Days of week ---'
Days = Enum('Mo', 'Tu', 'We', 'Th', 'Fr', 'Sa', 'Su')
print Days
print Days.Mo
print Days.Fr
print Days.Mo < Days.Fr
print list(Days)
for each in Days:
print 'Day:', each
print '--- Yes/No ---'
Confirmation = Enum('No', 'Yes')
answer = Confirmation.No
print 'Your answer is not', ~answer
