PEP 354: Enumerations in Python

[Ben Finney]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> 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 .

If you want the members of two distinct collections to have a
meaningful relationship, you don't want enumerations. The basic
promise of the specified enumeration interface is that every member of
an enumeration is a unique value.

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Ben Finney