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I didn’t like the existing enum recipes, so I cooked up what I feel is a better way of working with enumerations in python. The result is yapyenum, hosted on github. Rather than come up with something new to say about it, I’ll just repost the README here:
This module provides named enumerations for python.
Unlike other [...]

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I’ve had this code around for a while and had an opportunity to drag it out the other day and dust it off. The problem: Every now and again there’s a situation where you don’t really want to catch an exception, but you do want to perform some cleanup and let the exception propagate up [...]

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