On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013 13:57:11 -0700
Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I still don't understand what you mean, sorry. Like, this:
>
> class MyEmptyEnum(Enum):
>   pass
>
> Why would you want to subclass MyEmptyEnum ?
>
> Or do you mean this:
>
> class IntEnum(int, Enum):
>   pass
>
> Now I can have:
>
> class SocketFamily(IntEnum):
>   ??
>
> If it's the latter, then why allow subclassing explicitly just for this
> reason?

Because I may want to share methods accross all concrete subclasses of
IntEnum (or WhateverEnum).

You mean this?

class BehaviorMixin:
  # bla bla

class MyBehavingIntEnum(int, BehaviorMixin, Enum):
  foo = 1
  bar = 2

Eli