Ethan Furman added the comment: Perhaps a section in the docs about the differences from typical Python classes is warranted:
- Enum members are virtual - Enum members are singletons - new Enum members (aka instances of an Enum class) cannot be created - during class creation Enum members cannot be overwritten, nor overwrite other class attributes - Enum classes with members cannot be subclassed - Enum classes support iteration - Enum classes support containment ---------- nosy: +eli.bendersky _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19025> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com