Re: Unable to use enums that start with numbers

[Christoph Reiter <reiter christoph gmail com>]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:50 AM,  <philip chimento gmail com> wrote:
> However, it seems that PyGObject also automatically detects this situation
> and adds another alias, Gdk.EventType._2BUTTON_PRESS, as shown in the Python
> documentation for Gdk. [1] I assume it does something similar for your enum
> as well?

Sadly this is in the documentation only, I've filed
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768471

> Another question I have is what might be a good way to represent a value
> where multiple enums are combined as flags.  In the C API, an audio sample
> format is represented by a single unsigned integer which has bit fields for
> different parts of the format (bit width, channel count, sign/unsigned, and
> byte order).  These values are usually just logically OR'd together.  One
> thought which comes to mind for adding a binding for this is using a struct
> with bit fields and creating a boxed type from it.  That would definitely
> break the C API though and methods would need to be provided for accessing
> the fields of the sample format.

You could mark all function arguments for that type as "(type int)"
(one such example is gtk_icon_size_lookup) so it takes the result of
your OR'd values.