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? -- ~Ethan~