[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Apr 26 00:29:34 CEST 2013


On Apr 25, 2013, at 03:19 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Clearly this is a trick question. :-)

A bit, yes. :)

I was told when this was brought up previously (a week ago?) that it would be simple to make it truly the same class.

It didn't sound simple to me, but I haven't seen any actual code yet.

I suppose you were going to propose to use isinstance() overloading, but I honestly think that Color.red.class should be the same object as Color.

Yes, a custom instancecheck() is two lines of code.

I just can't get over the weirdness of a class having attributes which are actual instances of itself.

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