Re: [Python-ideas] PEP XXX - Competitor with PEP 435: Adding an enum type to the Python standard library

You also need negated values, or there's no way to write "background &= ~Color.RED". So, "~Color.RED" has to be something. No, you don't. I started saying the same thing (then got sidetracked into trying to define it as a general operation on sets, then abandoned

On 03/12/2013 09:43 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote: the idea as silly) in my last, but.... why not just background -= Color.RED? Just like sets. It's different from C, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.