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Re: Enum vs OrderedEnum

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Subject	Re: Enum vs OrderedEnum
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From	"Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk>
Organization	The Wildebestiary
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Date	2013-08-07 00:55 +0100

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On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:46:39 +0100, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2013 5:15 PM, "Ethan Furman" <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>> Use the .value attribute instead.  You could also substitute self for
> Environment.
>
> It feels more natural and readable to compare the enum instances rather
> than their value attributes. If I am ordering the values then that seems  
> to
> imply that the enumeration itself is ordered. So I guess my question is
> better stated: is there a better way to do this that doesn't involve
> ordered comparisons at all?

You could create sets (frozensets?) of standard and hostile environments  
as class variables.

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

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Re: Enum vs OrderedEnum Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 17:46 -0600
  Re: Enum vs OrderedEnum "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2013-08-07 00:55 +0100

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