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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu May 2 17:20:03 CEST 2013


On May 01, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:

Actually, in flufl.enum, IntEnum had to define a magic valuefactory attribute, but in the current ref435 implementation this isn't needed, so IntEnum is just:

class IntEnum(int, Enum): ''' Class where every instance is a subclass of int. ''' So why don't we just drop IntEnum from the API and tell users they should do the above explicitly, i.e.:

+1

-Barry



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