On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:54:57 -0700, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >>> from pickle import dumps, loads > >> >>> Fruit.tomato is loads(dumps(Fruit.tomato)) > >> True > > > > Why are you using is here instead of ==? You're making a circular > > loop using "is" > > I should add that when you're serializing with pickle and then > reloading, the objects should be seen as "essentially equivalent". > This means that they are either byte-by-byte equivalent (not sure > actually if Python actually guarantees this), or every element would > still compare equal and that is what matters.
Enums are supposed to be singletons, though, so the 'is' test is exactly the point of this test. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
