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Mon Nov 22 17:08:36 CET 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105806.html

On 11/22/2010 04:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> +1.  The problem with int constants is that the int gets printed, not
> the name, when you dump them for debugging purposes :)

Well, it's trivial to subclass int to something with a nicer __repr__. 
PyGTK uses that technique for wrapping C enums:

 >>> gtk.PREVIEW_GRAYSCALE
<enum GTK_PREVIEW_GRAYSCALE of type GtkPreviewType>
 >>> isinstance(gtk.PREVIEW_GRAYSCALE, int)
True
 >>> gtk.PREVIEW_GRAYSCALE + 0
1

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