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[EDIT] FILE: Enum.py

"""Enumeration metaclass.

XXX This is very much a work in progress.

"""

import string

class EnumMetaClass:
    """Metaclass for enumeration.

To define your own enumeration, do something like

class Color(Enum):
        red = 1
        green = 2
        blue = 3

Now, Color.red, Color.green and Color.blue behave totally
    different: they are enumerated values, not integers.

Enumerations cannot be instantiated; however they can be
    subclassed.

"""

def __init__(self, name, bases, dict):
        """Constructor -- create an enumeration.

Called at the end of the class statement.  The arguments are
        the name of the new class, a tuple containing the base
        classes, and a dictionary containing everything that was
        entered in the class' namespace during execution of the class
        statement.  In the above example, it would be {'red': 1,
        'green': 2, 'blue': 3}.

"""
        for base in bases:
            if base.__class__ is not EnumMetaClass:
                raise TypeError, "Enumeration base class must be enumeration"
        bases = filter(lambda x: x is not Enum, bases)
        self.__name__ = name
        self.__bases__ = bases
        self.__dict = {}
        for key, value in dict.items():
            self.__dict[key] = EnumInstance(name, key, value)

def __getattr__(self, name):
        """Return an enumeration value.

For example, Color.red returns the value corresponding to red.

XXX Perhaps the values should be created in the constructor?

This looks in the class dictionary and if it is not found
        there asks the base classes.

The special attribute __members__ returns the list of names
        defined in this class (it does not merge in the names defined
        in base classes).

"""
        if name == '__members__':
            return self.__dict.keys()

try:
            return self.__dict[name]
        except KeyError:
            for base in self.__bases__:
                try:
                    return getattr(base, name)
                except AttributeError:
                    continue

raise AttributeError, name

def __repr__(self):
        s = self.__name__
        if self.__bases__:
            s = s + '(' + string.join(map(lambda x: x.__name__,
                                          self.__bases__), ", ") + ')'
        if self.__dict:
            list = []
            for key, value in self.__dict.items():
                list.append("%s: %s" % (key, int(value)))
            s = "%s: {%s}" % (s, string.join(list, ", "))
        return s

class EnumInstance:
    """Class to represent an enumeration value.

EnumInstance('Color', 'red', 12) prints as 'Color.red' and behaves
    like the integer 12 when compared, but doesn't support arithmetic.

XXX Should it record the actual enumeration rather than just its
    name?

"""

def __init__(self, classname, enumname, value):
        self.__classname = classname
        self.__enumname = enumname
        self.__value = value

def __int__(self):
        return self.__value

def __repr__(self):
        return "EnumInstance(%r, %r, %r)" % (self.__classname,
                                             self.__enumname,
                                             self.__value)

def __str__(self):
        return "%s.%s" % (self.__classname, self.__enumname)

def __cmp__(self, other):
        return cmp(self.__value, int(other))

# Create the base class for enumerations.
# It is an empty enumeration.
Enum = EnumMetaClass("Enum", (), {})

def _test():

class Color(Enum):
        red = 1
        green = 2
        blue = 3

print Color.red
    print dir(Color)

print Color.red == Color.red
    print Color.red == Color.blue
    print Color.red == 1
    print Color.red == 2

class ExtendedColor(Color):
        white = 0
        orange = 4
        yellow = 5
        purple = 6
        black = 7