[Python-ideas] Enums

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 01:45 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

>If you mean that it's important for an enum *not* to have an ordering, I
>disagree. There are some use cases that benefit from having an ordering, and
>some that don't.  For those that don't, personally I don't care whether it
>has an ordering or not.

Based on my recent experiment (see my other follow up), values-as-ints can
have unintended side-effects.  It's clear that making this change would be
backward incompatible to my existing library, and I think it indicates that
there are indeed separate use cases for ordered enums and unordered enums.

I think if I were to accept values-as-ints as a new feature for my library,
I'd want to make it a separate class.  Yes, it complicates the library but
maybe the two design requirements are just incompatible.

-Barry
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