On 04/12/2013 12:37 PM, � wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw.edu> wrote:
Using intEnum is certainly doable, but that opens up the door to
comparing values from different Enums, which is not something I'd want
to allow.
I agree. Comparing values from different Enums could cause a lot of
hard to find bugs.
On the other hand, simply checking in `__cmp__` what Enum both values
belong to (since they do have a `enum` attribute) should allow us to
avoid cross-comparing instead of just raising a TypeError. It's not
very intuitive behavior IMHO.
Something like this is what happens for Enums, but IntEnums are subtypes of
int, and if we had something like:
class Fruit(IntEnum):
apples = 1
bananas = 2
oranges = 3
class Flowers(IntEnum):
roses = 1
lillies = 2
violets = 3
--> Fruit.apples == 1
True
--> Flowers.roses == 1
True
--> Fruit.apples == 1 == Flowers.roses
???
This way lies madness.
--
~Ethan~
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