[Python-Dev] Enum: subclassing? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed May 1 23:00:01 CEST 2013


On Wed, 1 May 2013 13:57:11 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

I still don't understand what you mean, sorry. Like, this: class MyEmptyEnum(Enum): pass Why would you want to subclass MyEmptyEnum ? Or do you mean this: class IntEnum(int, Enum): pass Now I can have: class SocketFamily(IntEnum): ?? If it's the latter, then why allow subclassing explicitly just for this reason?

Because I may want to share methods accross all concrete subclasses of IntEnum (or WhateverEnum).

Regards

Antoine.



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