On 04/25/2013 03:07 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2013, at 02:30 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> --> class Animal(Enum):
>> ... ant = 1
>> ... bee = 2
>> ... fly = 3
>>>> --> Animal(2) # should return Animal.bee
>>>> --> Animal('ant') # should return Animal.ant
>>>> It seems to me that storing the instances on the class as attributes is
>> mostly for convenience; we could just as easily not, and change the repr of
>> enumerators to '<Animal> ant [int=1]'.
>> So I guess you would still expect these to hold true:
>> >>> Animal.ant is Animal(2)
> True
> >>> Animal.ant is Animal('ant')
> True
Well, except for ant being 1, yeah. ;)
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~Ethan~
