[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 27 03:37:23 CEST 2013
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Eli Bendersky wrote:
There's a conceptual difference between a value of an enumeration and a collection of such values.
Not if you think of an enum as a type and a type as defining a set of values. From that point of view, the enum itself is already a collection of values, and introducing another object is creating an artificial distinction.
-- Greg
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