On Apr 30, 2013, at 07:39 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote: >>> Because Guido said no subclassing. > >Indeed, I heard him. But what I heard was that subclasses shouldn't be >allowed to define new enumeration values, and that was the point of all his >justification and the justifications in the Stack Overflow discussion he >linked to. I don't want to disagree, or argue that point, there are reasons >for it, although some have raised counter-arguments to it. This is not >intended to be a counter-argument to the point that there should be no new >enumeration values created in subclasses.
That's a shame, because disallowing subclassing to extend an enum will break my existing use cases. Maybe I won't be able to adopt stdlib.enums after all. :( -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
