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

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Wed May 1 23:04:11 CEST 2013


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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).

You mean this?

class BehaviorMixin:

bla bla

class MyBehavingIntEnum(int, BehaviorMixin, Enum): foo = 1 bar = 2

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