[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
Davis Silverman
sinistersnare at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 16:34:18 CEST 2013
i agree with that, and good point, i guess i misunderstood.
enums could be a nice edition, i cant wait to see how this goes.
--Sinistersnare
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:23 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:19:29 -0400, Davis Silverman <
> sinistersnare at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the reason they are not supporting __lt__, __gt__,etc. is because
> > ints are optional values for enums, therefore it wouldnt be a good idea
> to
> > compare enums of different types in that way.
> >
> > example:
> >
> > >>>class MyEnum(Enum):
> > >>> fir = 1
> > >>> sec = 2
> > >>> thir = "THIRD!"
> >
> > and doing
> >
> > >>> MyEnum.fir >= MyEnum.thir
> > would give unexpected results, therefore not making it a great idea
>
> That's why I included the bit about iterating the values. The ordering
> *is* defined. I find it much more surprising for that ordering to
> be inaccessible via the comparison operators.
>
> I think either the iteration order should be undefined (like a set
> or dict), or the comparison operations should work. I'd prefer
> the latter, because of the use case I outlined.
>
> --David
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