Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

Fri Jan 23 12:23:44 EST 2015

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only workaround I have been able to come up with is:
>> class B4(IntEnum):
>> F1 = 0
>> F2 = ""
>> F3 = None
>> T = 1
>> which is not bad; its ridiculous

It's ridiculous because you declared an IntEnum and then started using
non-integer values that boolify to the same value (and don't intify).
If that even works, it's a total hack, and it might stop working in a
future version... for example, it doesn't seem to work on my Python
3.5:
>>> class B4(IntEnum):
... F1=0
... F2=""
... F3=None
... T=1
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/enum.py", line 152, in __new__
 enum_member = __new__(enum_class, *args)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Using Enum instead of IntEnum does work, but it's still hardly a
normal use of an enumeration.
ChrisA