On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Since ints don't provide a set-like interface, they aren't strictly
> speaking bitsets. But in any case, nobody is stopping people from using
> sets of enum values.
I'm not sure what "set-like interface" you'd be looking for, but the
built-in set type has a lot of the same operations as an integer does,
and the semantics are virtually identical to a set of bits. The only
one you really lack is __contains__, which could easily be added:
class BitSet(int):
def __contains__(self, bit):
return (self & bit) == bit
>>> x = BitSet(1|2|8|32)
>>> 2 in x
True
>>> 4 in x
False
Set union, intersection, etc are all provided using the same operators
in sets and ints.
ChrisA
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