[Python-ideas] Enums

[Ethan Furman]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 05:46 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>> If the flufl enums subclassed integer then replacing most of the existing
>> constants in the standard library would be trivially easy (so we'd have a
>> built-in use case).
> 
> I've so far resisted the occasional suggestion to make enum values int
> subclasses, because I think enum values should not *be* ints, but should be
> compatible with ints (as they are now).  Ordered comparisons of enum values
> bothers me. ;)

If it's going to be in the stdlib, I think they should be ints -- while 
not necessary most of the time, the few times it is will illicit praise 
for Python and its simplicity instead of complaints about somebody 
making decisions for them.

~Ethan~