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Not sure if this is appropriate or useful, so won't repeat, but I wrote an<br>
alternative Enum implementation for Python 3, which is available at<br>
<a href="https://github.com/andrewcooke/simple-enum" target="_blank">https://github.com/andrewcooke/simple-enum</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It may have been appropriate and useful if you gave us the benefit of the doubt and wouldn't assume we are oblivious to the possibility of such an approach. Hint: it had seen probably at least 100 emails of discussion in this list (months back). Yes, it's way more fun to write flamy rants and new code than digging in mailing list archives; yet, language design often requires much of the latter as well.<br>
<br></div><div>Other than that, it's perfectly fine to have alternative enum proposals out in the wild. I sincerely wish you well in the sense that if someone doesn't like the stdlib enum and wants to use something like your bnum, they will find it online and will happily use it.<br>
</div><div><br>Eli<br><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>