On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what it would even mean to treat this kind of data as > "flags", since you can't take the bitwise-or of two strings...
This makes a more sense outside of ndarrays, where you would do something like: enum FLAG0 = 1, FLAG1 = 2, FLAG2 = 4 do_something(data, mode=FLAG0 & FLAG2) The enum is therefore just a handle for its numerical value. While it may not be that useful in an array, I think Mark was just pointing out that there may be other similar use cases, such as enumerating from 0 to N-1, or in reverse from N-1 down to 0, or in steps of 2, or in powers of 2, etc. Stéfan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
