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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Sat Apr 13 02:13:02 CEST 2013


On 4/12/2013 3:59 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> class Insect(Enum):
>      wasp = 1
>      bee = 1
>      ant = 2
>
> We'd have Insect.wasp == Insect.bee < Insect.ant but Insect.wasp is
> not Insect.bee.

can't define two names in the same enum to have the same value, per the PEP.
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