Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Feb 23 16:06:45 CET 2013

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On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:02:31 +0100
Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, this is a deal-breaker IMO. I'd actually argue that enums are
not terribly useful apart from interacting with C constants.

Regards

Antoine.

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