[Python-Dev] Enum Eccentricities (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Sep 23 06:25:23 CEST 2013

On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Zero Piraeus wrote:

I may be misunderstanding the use case given in the issue, but it seems to me that having to use

Color.red.class.blue (what is being complained about in the issue), while not exactly pretty, makes a lot more semantic sense than Color.red.blue ... which is just bizarre.

Right.

Enum members aren't class attributes, even if the way they're defined makes them look as though they are. Allowing this is just asking for more confusion on the part of anyone using them IMHO.

Depends on how you define "class sttribute".

--Guido

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