Warning on comparing wrapper enums with is (#4732)

* Warning on comparing wrapper enums with is * backticks for quoting and link to related issue --------- Co-authored-by: Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <rwgk@google.com>
pybind · Jul 12, 2023 · 6d22dba · 6d22dba
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@@ -549,3 +549,7 @@ The ``name`` property returns the name of the enum value as a unicode string.
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     By default, these are omitted to conserve space.
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+.. warning::
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+    Contrary to Python customs, enum values from the wrappers should not be compared using ``is``, but with ``==`` (see `#1177 <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/1177>`_ for background).