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authorEthan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>2015-01-15 06:31:50 (GMT)
committerEthan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>2015-01-15 06:31:50 (GMT)
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Issue22997: minor doc update; thanks to Simoen Visser
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@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ enumerations; the others auto-assign increasing integers starting with 1. A
new class derived from :class:`Enum` is returned. In other words, the above
assignment to :class:`Animal` is equivalent to::
- >>> class Animals(Enum):
+ >>> class Animal(Enum):
... ant = 1
... bee = 2
... cat = 3
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ enumeration is being created in (e.g. it will fail if you use a utility
function in separate module, and also may not work on IronPython or Jython).
The solution is to specify the module name explicitly as follows::
- >>> Animals = Enum('Animals', 'ant bee cat dog', module=__name__)
+ >>> Animal = Enum('Animal', 'ant bee cat dog', module=__name__)
.. warning::
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ The new pickle protocol 4 also, in some circumstances, relies on
to find the class. For example, if the class was made available in class
SomeData in the global scope::
- >>> Animals = Enum('Animals', 'ant bee cat dog', qualname='SomeData.Animals')
+ >>> Animal = Enum('Animal', 'ant bee cat dog', qualname='SomeData.Animal')
The complete signature is::
@@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ The complete signature is::
'red green blue' | 'red,green,blue' | 'red, green, blue'
+ or an iterator of names::
+
+ ['red', 'green', 'blue']
+
or an iterator of (name, value) pairs::
[('cyan', 4), ('magenta', 5), ('yellow', 6)]