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

[Tres Seaver]

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On 05/19/2013 07:22 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 05/19/2013 10:48 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> Anyway, if you're doing arithmetic on enums you're doing it
>>> wrong.
>> 
>> Hmm, bitwise operations, even?
> 
> I think it's rather pointless to do bitwise operations on python 
> enums.  We're not that close to the machine.

What, nobody uses Python to do networking?  How abaout driving the GPIO
on a RaspberryPI?  Using the bitwise operators to compbine named "flag"
values seems like a pretty natural fit to me (if you don't care about the
specific values, you don't need IntEnum anyway).


Tres.
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