Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The premise is that they're not necessarily distinct (disjoint) collections; one of them has been explicitly created as a superset of the other. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list