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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:13:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> No disagreement with the 'hack'
> As for "no use case for equal but distinct tokens" - thats a strange
> view given this thread

If you want equal but distinct, you can give them distinct values and
define an __eq__ method that compares them as equal. Because of this
though I do take some issue with the Planet example in the docs:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#planet

If any planets happened to have the same mass and radius (which I
realize would be unlikely in this case), the example would fail. Using
the value of the enum for both identity and data conflates the two
concepts and leads to pitfalls.