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On 05/01/2013 12:14 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But we'd probably have to give up something else, e.g. adding methods
> to enums, or any hope that the instance/class/subclass relationships
> make any sense.

I'd be glad to drop both of those in favor of subclassing:  I think the
emphasis on "class-ness" makes no sense, given the driving usecases for
adopting enums into the stdlib in the first place.   IOW, I would vote
that real-world usecases trump hypothetical purity.


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