Cameron Simpson wrote:
I'd go a bit further here: I'd take this final sentence as being -0 on preventing adding more enumerals(?), whereas I'm a solid -1 on preventing it. By all means not actively support it, but very against doing things that make it hard for a subclass to support it.
I had another thought about subclassing. I don't think it would be a good idea to totally forbid subclassing classes derived from Enum, because you may want to define an Enum subclass for the purpose of creating a new *kind* of enum. For example, class FancyEnum(Enum): def fancy_str(self): return str(self) + " with bells on" If subclassing a subclass of Enum were prevented somehow, you would't be able to create any actual enums based on FancyEnum. -- Greg