Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> writes:On 04/29/2013 07:42 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:State is a class, it just inherits from enum. Thus: type(State) == type(enum) == type(EnumMetaclass) issubclass(State, enum) == True HTH, -NikolausIf you'd tried it, you'd have found that that isn't true. enum has a metaclass, EnumMetaclass. Thus type(enum) == EnumMetaClass.That is exactly what I wrote above.