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[Ethan Furman]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> In my experimental branch I've also made EnumValues subclasses of ints.  This
> breaks one test in my Mailman 3 test suite, since I was using a custom encoder
> for json.dumps() which knew how to encode EnumValues.  However, the json
> module doesn't allow you to override the encoding of basic types,

Isn't this a problem with json?  An EnumValue is a subclass, after all, 
not a plain ol' straight-up int -- I would think that json should 
realize a subclass may be different and go the .default() route.

~Ethan~