[Pyme-help] contants -> constant names? for info

[Bernhard R. <ber...@in...>]

Hi Igor,
I am starting to wonder if it would be practical to have a conversion function
that will return the name of the constant from its value.

When trying to interpret key.owner_trust or uid.validity, e.g. as in

 key = c.get_key(keyfpr, False)
 print "got key: ", key.subkeys[0].fpr, "owner_trust:", key.owner_trust
 for uid in key.uids:
        print uid.uid, "validity:", uid.validity

from pyme.constants import validity
gives me the constants, but from there it is difficult to contract
their name. I could use the information from
 dir(validity)
['FULL', 'MARGINAL', 'NEVER', 'ULTIMATE', 'UNDEFINED', 'UNKNOWN', 
'__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'util']

but this would not be conclusive as there could be more integers in there.
So in the end I would need to make my own list of the six values, which is
not helpful. Why not have process_constants() create a sole table as well?

I think there are quite a few use cases for this.
Especially when trying to print extra information about what has happened,
this is in the debug case, but also in the general "verbose" information case.

Best,
Bernhard

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