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Fri Apr 26 00:23:55 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125556.html

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.  ;)

--
~Ethan~

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[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library