[Python-Dev] Purpose of Doctests [Was: Best practices for Enum]

[Nick Coghlan]

On 20 May 2013 06:25, "Terry Jan Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
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> On 5/19/2013 4:13 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> On 05/19/2013 10:48 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>>> Anyway, if you're doing arithmetic on enums you're doing it wrong.
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>> Hmm, bitwise operations, even?
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> Those are logic, not arithmetic as usually understood. (The fact that one
can do each with the other is beside the point.)

I consider those to be binary arithmetic, but it's a fair point. The word I
really wanted was "comparison" anyway, since the main intended uses of
enums are as flags, lookup keys and marker values.

Cheers,
Nick.

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