Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Thu May 2 17:58:07 CEST 2013

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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On May 01, 2013, at 03:11 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
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> >The reason __int__ is there is because pure Enums should be using plain
> ints
> >as their value 95% or more of the time, and being able to easily convert
> to a
> >real int for either database storage, wire transmission, or C functions
> is a
> >Good Thing.
>
> But then, Foo.a.value is good enough.
>

__int__ is out of Enum, Barry. You're preaching to the choir now ;-)

Eli
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