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

[Greg Ewing]

Eli Bendersky wrote:
> There's a conceptual 
> difference between a value of an enumeration and a collection of such 
> values.

Not if you think of an enum as a type and a type as
defining a set of values. From that point of view, the
enum itself is already a collection of values, and
introducing another object is creating an artificial
distinction.

-- 
Greg