On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 04/29/2013 08:39 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Indeed, the "type(Color.red) is Color" claim was meant for the
situation where red is defined directly in Color, and I used type()
instead of isinstance() because Barry was proposing to overload
isinstance() to make this true without equating the classes. But for
the subclass case, I want MoreColor.red is Color.red and
isinstance(MoreColor.red, Color), but not isinstance(Color.red,
MoreColor). If you can't live with that, don't subclass enums.

So if I understand:

--> class Color(Enum):
...     red = 1
...     green = 2
...     blue = 3

--> class MoreColor(Color):
...     cyan = 4
...     magenta = 5
...     yellow = 6

--> type(MoreColor.red) is Color

--> type(MoreColor.red) is not MoreColor

In other words, while `red` is accessible in MoreColor, it's actually a
Color instance?

Oh dear, this is actually a mess. I don't want MoreColor.red and
Color.red to be distinct objects, but then the isinstance() checks
will become confusing. If we don't override isinstance(), we'll get

  not isinstance(Color.red, MoreColor)
  isinstance(MoreColor.yellow, Color)

This would be pretty backwards.