Cameron Simpson wrote:
I'd go a bit further here: I'd take this final sentence as being
-0 on preventing adding more enumerals(?), whereas I'm a solid -1
on preventing it. By all means not actively support it, but very
against doing things that make it hard for a subclass to support
it.
I had another thought about subclassing. I don't think it
would be a good idea to totally forbid subclassing classes
derived from Enum, because you may want to define an Enum
subclass for the purpose of creating a new *kind* of enum.
For example,
class FancyEnum(Enum):
def fancy_str(self):
return str(self) + " with bells on"
If subclassing a subclass of Enum were prevented somehow,
you would't be able to create any actual enums based on
FancyEnum.
--
Greg
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