[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 25 02:33:07 CEST 2013
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R. David Murray wrote:
If 'a' is now an instance of MyEnum, then I would expect that:
MyEnum.a.b would be valid
That is indeed a quirk, but it's not unprecedented. Exactly the same thing happens in Java. This compiles and runs:
enum Foo { a, b }
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.printf("%s\n", Foo.a.b);
}}
There probably isn't much use for that behaviour, but on the other hand, it's probably not worth going out of our way to prevent it.
-- Greg
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