I like this implementation of an 'enum' better.

rq/job.py

@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@ JOB_ATTRS = set(['origin', '_func_name', 'ended_at', 'description', '_args',
                  'created_at', 'enqueued_at', 'connection', '_result', 'result',
                  'timeout', '_kwargs', 'exc_info', '_id', 'data', '_instance',
                  'result_ttl', '_status', 'status'])
-Status = namedtuple('Status', ('queued', 'finished', 'failed'))
+
-STATUS = Status(queued='queued', finished='finished', failed='failed')
+def enum(name, *sequential, **named):
+    values = dict(zip(sequential, range(len(sequential))), **named)
+    return type(name, (), values)
+
+Status = enum('Status', QUEUED='queued', FINISHED='finished', FAILED='failed')
 
 
 def unpickle(pickled_string):
@@ -51,8 +55,6 @@ def requeue_job(job_id, connection=None):
 class Job(object):
     """A Job is just a convenient datastructure to pass around job (meta) data.
     """
-    STATUS = STATUS
-
     # Job construction
     @classmethod
     def create(cls, func, args=None, kwargs=None, connection=None,

rq/queue.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import times
 from .connections import resolve_connection
-from .job import Job
+from .job import Job, Status
 from .exceptions import NoSuchJobError, UnpickleError, InvalidJobOperationError
 from .compat import total_ordering
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         """
         timeout = timeout or self._default_timeout
         job = Job.create(func, args, kwargs, connection=self.connection,
-                         result_ttl=result_ttl, status=Job.STATUS.queued)
+                         result_ttl=result_ttl, status=Status.QUEUED)
         return self.enqueue_job(job, timeout=timeout)
 
     def enqueue(self, f, *args, **kwargs):

rq/worker.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import logging
 from cPickle import dumps
 from .queue import Queue, get_failed_queue
 from .connections import get_current_connection
+from .job import Status
 from .utils import make_colorizer
 from .exceptions import NoQueueError, UnpickleError
 from .timeouts import death_penalty_after
@@ -384,12 +385,12 @@ class Worker(object):
             # Pickle the result in the same try-except block since we need to
             # use the same exc handling when pickling fails
             pickled_rv = dumps(rv)
-            job._status = job.STATUS.finished
+            job._status = Status.FINISHED
         except Exception as e:
             fq = self.failed_queue
             self.log.exception(red(str(e)))
             self.log.warning('Moving job to %s queue.' % fq.name)
-            job._status = job.STATUS.failed
+            job._status = Status.FAILED
 
             fq.quarantine(job, exc_info=traceback.format_exc())
             return False

tests/test_queue.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from tests import RQTestCase
 from tests.fixtures import Calculator, div_by_zero, say_hello, some_calculation
 from rq import Queue, get_failed_queue
-from rq.job import Job
+from rq.job import Job, Status
 from rq.exceptions import InvalidJobOperationError
 
 
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ class TestQueue(RQTestCase):
         """Enqueueing a job sets its status to "queued"."""
         q = Queue()
         job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
-        self.assertEqual(job.status, Job.STATUS.queued)
+        self.assertEqual(job.status, Status.QUEUED)
 
 
 class TestFailedQueue(RQTestCase):

tests/test_worker.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from tests.fixtures import say_hello, div_by_zero, do_nothing, create_file, \
         create_file_after_timeout
 from tests.helpers import strip_milliseconds
 from rq import Queue, Worker, get_failed_queue
-from rq.job import Job
+from rq.job import Job, Status
 
 
 class TestWorker(RQTestCase):
@@ -179,10 +179,10 @@ class TestWorker(RQTestCase):
         job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
         w.work(burst=True)
         job = Job.fetch(job.id)
-        self.assertEqual(job.status, job.STATUS.finished)
+        self.assertEqual(job.status, Status.FINISHED)
 
         # Failed jobs should set status to "failed"
         job = q.enqueue(div_by_zero, args=(1,))
         w.work(burst=True)
         job = Job.fetch(job.id)
-        self.assertEqual(job.status, job.STATUS.failed)
+        self.assertEqual(job.status, Status.FAILED)