On Jun 07, 2013, at 02:30 PM, PJ Eby wrote: >I don't know if enums *actually* preserve this invariant, but my >default expectation of the One Obvious Way would be that enums, being >uniquely-named objects that know their name and container, should be >considered global objects in the same fashion as classes and >functions, *and* that as singletons, they'd also be treated in the >same way as None, Ellipsis, etc. That is, there are two independent >precedents for objects like that preserving "is" upon pickling and >unpickling.
This is certainly how I thought of them in flufl.enum, and indeed the `is` test in my own test suite proves that it works. -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
