PEP 354: Enumerations in Python

[Paul Rubin]

Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> These don't seem simple or elegant. I don't see a particular benefit
> to doing it that way, rather than being explicit about manipulating
> the member list::
> 
>     pentium_instructions = enum('add', 'sub', 'mul')
>     athlon64_instructions = enum(
>         *[ str(i) for i in pentium_instructions] + ['add64', 'sub64'] )

I don't know about this.  It makes athlon64_instructions a completely
separate enum from pentium_instructions.  It could be that
athlon64_instructions.add should be the same as pentium_instructions.add .