On Apr 25, 2013, at 02:30 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

>--> class Animal(Enum):
>...     ant = 1
>...     bee = 2
>...     fly = 3
>
>--> Animal(2)  # should return Animal.bee
>
>--> Animal('ant')  # should return Animal.ant
>
>It seems to me that storing the instances on the class as attributes is
>mostly for convenience; we could just as easily not, and change the repr of
>enumerators to '<Animal> ant [int=1]'.

So I guess you would still expect these to hold true:

    >>> Animal.ant is Animal(2)
    True
    >>> Animal.ant is Animal('ant')
    True

-Barry
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