From: Michael Dykman Date: July 12 2010 3:12pm Subject: Re: Creating a Data Dictionary List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/222156 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No such thing in SQL On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > Perhaps I have a conflict of terms here, but my googling "mysql data > dictionary" turned up material that didn't seem to correspond with my > problem. In python I can create dictionaries: > my_dict =3D {'1': 'one', '2': 'two'} > Now, I would like to create the equivalent of an enum in which I could > utilize data like that. Of course, I could lump the whole key-value pairs > into one data and create an enum like that, then parse them later. I'm ju= st > wondering if there's a more elegant way to do this. > TIA, > Victor > --=20 =A0- michael dykman =A0- mdykman@stripped =A0May the Source be with you.