[Python-Dev] Best practices for Enum (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue May 14 14:08:15 CEST 2013

On 14/05/13 16:51, Gregory P. Smith wrote: [...]

This sounds like a feature request for doctest. doctest could be educated about enums and automatically compare to the integer value for such cases.

Please no. Enums are not special enough to break the rules.

Good: "Doctests look at the object's repr."

Bad: "Doctests look at an object's repr, unless the object is an Enum, when it will look at the enum's value."

If I want a test that checks the enum's value, then I will write a doctest that explicitly checks the enum's value.

-- Steven

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