[Python-Dev] enum instances

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Tue Apr 30 05:45:52 CEST 2013


On 04/29/2013 07:42 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> State is a class, it just inherits from enum. Thus:
>
> type(State) == type(enum) == type(EnumMetaclass)
> issubclass(State, enum) == True
>
>
> HTH,
>
>     -Nikolaus

If you'd tried it, you'd have found that that isn't true.  enum has a 
metaclass, EnumMetaclass.  Thus type(enum) == EnumMetaClass.

That didn't help,


//arry/
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