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i’m using python 3.4 on windows. recently i tried to install and use sphinx.  when i did, i encountered an error that ended with the googling that string, i found an explanation of the problem on stackoverflow, here the babel folks are working on it. but until they fix it, i needed a really simple-minded solution.  i needed something that would fit my fortunately, i still had python 2.7 installed on my pc.  so here is what i did. repickled the string into a file named globals.dat. i saved this program in the python34 folder, and ran it under python 3.4. to save you some trouble, here is the python 3.4 globals.dat file that i made.  because wordpress wouldn’t allow me to upload it with a “dat” extension, it has a “doc” extension.  when you do*nload it, you should rename it and give it a “dat” extension. (one of my favorite bloggers) and i ran across a sentence in which eli says “it’s a shame python still doesn’t have a functional enum the comment startled me because i had always thought that it was obvious how to do enums in python, and that it was obvious that you don’t need any special language features to do it. eli’s comment made me think that i might need to do a reality-check on my sense of so i googled around a bit and found that there are a lot of different ideas about how to do enums in python. i found a very large set of (that has been rejected). surprisingly, i found only a couple of posts that suggested what had seemed to me to be the obvious solution. the anyway, to end the suspense, the answer that seemed to me so obvious was this. an enum is an enumerated data type. an enumerated data type clas*           color : pas* clas* red      (color): pas* clas* yellow   (color): pas* clas* blue     (color): pas* if mytoy.color is red:     print(my toy is red)   # produces: my toy is red but with so many intelligent people all trying to answer the same question, and coming up with such a wide array of different answers, i