On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > The reason __int__ is there is because pure Enums should be using plain ints > as their value 95% or more of the time, and being able to easily convert to > a real int for either database storage, wire transmission, or C functions is > a Good Thing.
What would int(x) return if x is an enum whose value is not a plain int? Why can't you use x.value for this use case? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
