[Python-ideas] PEP XXX - Competitor with PEP 435: Adding an enum type to the Python standard library

[Random832]

On 03/12/2013 06:17 PM, Alex Stewart wrote:
> effectively multi-enum sets
Speaking of sets... it seems like sets of single enum values would be a 
good way to represent "ORed-together enums". But then if you want a 
function to accept one, it has to be able to not care if it's only a 
single one or not.

So, what if each value of a 'flags' type enum is also able to be treated 
as a single-member set of itself? We already have one object that 
iterates into a sequence the same class: strings, so there's nothing 
wrong with that _conceptually_.

The constructor could turn a sequence of the enum into a proper instance 
of it [if needed to get the int value] for passing into functions that 
require one, and a function that takes such a set of them could just not 
care the difference between Color.red|Color.blue and {Color.red,Color.blue}.