On 12/19/22 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
The way things are, a StrEnum or an HTML string will behave *exactly as a string does*. The alternative is that, if any new operations are added to strings in the future, they have to be explicitly blocked by StrEnum or else they will randomly and mysteriously misbehave - or, at very best, crash with unexpected errors. Which one is more hostile to subclasses?
As Brendan noted, mixed-type enums are special -- they are meant to be whatever they subclass, with a couple extra features/restrictions. Personally, every other time I've wanted to subclass a built-in data type, I've wanted the built-in methods to return my subclass, not the original class. All of which is to say: sometimes you want it one way, sometimes the other. ;-) Metaclasses, anyone? -- ~Ethan~