Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Jun 19, 2013, at 01:45 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>Allowing __str__ to be inherited from Enum rather than from the concrete type >will similarly break any serialisation protocol that relies on str() to >handle integers. The float case is even trickier, since failing to inherit >__repr__ would rather miss the point of the whole exercise... Serialization isn't the only issue - you have to know how to deserialize as well. I use JSON extensively in Mailman's REST API. For enums I always encode them to just the member name, because I always know what enum class will be used to deserialize them. (TBH, I wish the json module had better hooks for extending both serialization and deserialization of non-basic types.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18264> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
