Tricks to do "enums"?

Neil Schemenauer nascheme at enme.ucalgary.ca
Mon May 8 01:19:33 EDT 2000


Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
>Oh, I see what you're saying. So if I compare mymodule.ALPHA
>to an attribute thay may or may not be set to mymodle.ALPHA,
>I can do an identity-compare. Nifty.

"==" works just as well.  Python smart enough to try a pointer
compare first.  The code path is almost the same so I doubt there
would be much speed gained by using "is".

    Neil

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