On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:44:21 -0700, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:31 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:11:06 -0700, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> > > wrote: > >> I gotta say, I'm with Antoine here. It's pretty natural (also coming > >> from other languages) to assume that the class used to define the > >> enums is also the type of the enum values. Certainly this is how it > >> works in Java and C++, and I would say it's the same in Pascal and > >> probably most other languages. > > > > Well, I guess I can wrap my head around it :) An Enum is an odd duck > > anyway, which I suppose is one of the things that makes it worth adding. > > Sorry, you're being to literary/poetic. I can't tell what you meant by > this response.
I was alluding to the fact that in Python we usually work with instances of classes (not always, I know, but still...), but with Enum we are really using the class as a first level object. Given that, breaking my (questionable?) intuition about isinstance should not be unexpected. And by that last phrase I meant to refer to the fact that getting this right is obviously non-trivial, which is one of the things that makes it worth adding as a Python feature. --David _______________________________________________ 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
