Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Sat Feb 23 16:02:31 CET 2013

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eli.bendersky <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> +Ordered comparisons between enumeration values are *not* supported.  Enums are
> +not integers!

Hmm. I think this limits interoperation with C libraries and prototyping
C code.

Actually all I want from a Python enum is to be like a C enum with symbolic
representations for the values.


Stefan Krah

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