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The Purpose Enumeration

The Purpose Enumeration

Learn about purpose enumeration, classification implementation, setter methods, and design refinement for sample differentiation.

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Purpose enumeration

We’ll start by enumerating a domain of Purpose values:

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class Purpose(enum.IntEnum):
    Classification = 0
    Testing = 1
    Training = 2

This definition creates a namespace with three objects we can use in our code: Purpose.Classification, Purpose.Testing, and Purpose.Training. For example, we can use if sample.purpose == Purpose.Testing: to identify a testing sample.

We can convert to Purpose objects from input values using Purpose(x) where x is an integer value, 0, 1, or 2. Any other value will raise a ValueError exception. We can convert back to numeric values, also. For example, Purpose.Training.value is 1. Using numeric codes can fit well with external software that doesn’t deal well with an enumeration of Python objects.

Implementation

Let’s decompose the KnownSample subclass of the Sample class into two parts. Here’s the first part. We initialize ...