On Apr 12, 2013, at 03:31 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ordered comparisons between enumeration values are *not* supported. Enums >> are >> not integers (but see `IntEnum`_ below):: >> >> >>> Colors.red < Colors.blue >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ... >> NotImplementedError >> >>> Colors.red <= Colors.blue >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ... >> NotImplementedError >> >>> Colors.blue > Colors.green >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ... >> NotImplementedError >> >>> Colors.blue >= Colors.green >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ... >> NotImplementedError > >I like much of this PEP, but the exception type for this case seems >odd to me. Wouldn't a TypeError be more appropriate here? > >Somewhat like this: > >>>> 'a' - 'b' >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'str'
Interesting. I'm having a hard time articulating why, but NotImplementedError just feels more right to me in this case. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
