On 04/25/2013 11:44 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Apr 23, 2013, at 03:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
I'm having a problem with the proposed implementation. I haven't found
any mention of it, so apologies if this has already been discussed:
from flufl.enum import *
class C(Enum):
... a = 1
... b = 2
...
C.a.__class__
<class 'flufl.enum._enum.EnumValue'>
isinstance(C.a, C)
False
isinstance(C(1), C)
False
It would really be better if instances were actual instances of the
class, IMO.
Ignore the single argument call syntax for Enums please. As Eli pointed out,
you have getitem syntax for this and the single argument call syntax is
deprecated. It will be removed in a future version of flufl.enum and need not
appear in stdlib enum. TOOWTDI.
For me, the getitem syntax on a class seems odd and the call syntax is TOOWTDI.
C.a and C[1] return the same object, and it seems perfectly natural to me that
this object is *not* an instance of the enum class. In fact, it seems
completely weird to me that C.a would be an instance of the enum class. It
seems very rare that a class has attributes that are instances of that class.
It's not even easy to do with traditional syntax.
class Foo:
a = Foo()
b = Foo()
c = Foo()
Obviously you need a metaclass in there. ;)
--
~Ethan~
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