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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>
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Subject: Re: Some Python ideas, looking for feedback
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In-Reply-To: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD0151F6C8A1@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM>	(Paul Koning's message of "Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:15:20 -0500")
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>>>>> "Paul" =3D=3D   <Paul_Koning@Dell.com> writes:

Paul> Clearly we could.  For example, Andr=C3=A9 suggested using the int()
Paul> function on the field object, by analogy to what int() does to an
Paul> enum-valued Value object.  That certainly would make sense and it
Paul> would be a pretty natural Pythonic thing to do.

Sounds good to me.

Tom