On 12/19/22 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote: > The way things are, a StrEnum or an HTML string will behave *exactly > as a string does*. The alternative is that, if any new operations are > added to strings in the future, they have to be explicitly blocked by > StrEnum or else they will randomly and mysteriously misbehave - or, at > very best, crash with unexpected errors. Which one is more hostile to > subclasses?
As Brendan noted, mixed-type enums are special -- they are meant to be whatever they subclass, with a couple extra features/restrictions.
Personally, every other time I've wanted to subclass a built-in data type, I've wanted the built-in methods to return my subclass, not the original class.
All of which is to say: sometimes you want it one way, sometimes the other. ;-) Metaclasses, anyone? -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/H6TQFFG3QZDNC4EJGROYLJVWU6L57XBA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
