On Apr 29, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 04/28/2013 01:02 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: - should enum items be of the type of the Enum class? (i.e. type(SPRING) is Seasons)

IMO Yes.

This decision seems natural to me, so I wrote an enumeration library some time ago that uses a simple metaclass to achieve "type(Season.spring) is Season": https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/blob/master/beets/util/enumeration.py The module has other warts but perhaps it can be helpful anyway. Cheers, Adrian