[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Pre-alpha draft for PEP 435 (enum). The name is not important at the moment, as

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Feb 26 00:53:03 CET 2013


Barry Warsaw wrote:
>     >>> Colors = make('Colors', 'red green blue'.split())
>     >>> Animals = make('Animals', 'ant bee cat'.split())
>     >>> Colors.green == Animals.bee

The currently suggested solution to that seems to be to
make comparison non-transitive, so that Colors.green == 1
and Animals.bee == 1 but Colors.green != Animals.bee.
And then hope that this does not create a quantum black
hole that sucks us all into a logical singularity...

-- 
Greg


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