Robust enumerated type support in Python
This package provides a module for robust enumerations in Python.
An enumeration object is created with a sequence of string arguments to the Enum() constructor:
>>> from enum import Enum
>>> Colours = Enum('Colours', ['red', 'blue', 'green'])
>>> Weekdays = Enum('Weekdays', ['mon', 'tue', 'wed', 'thu', 'fri', 'sat', 'sun'])
The return value is an immutable sequence object with a value for each of the string arguments. Each value is also available as an attribute named from the corresponding string argument:
>>> pizza_night = Weekdays[4]
>>> shirt_colour = Colours.green
The values are constants that can be compared with values from the same enumeration, as well as with integers or strings; comparison with other values will invoke Python’s fallback comparisons:
>>> pizza_night == Weekdays.fri
True
>>> shirt_colour > Colours.red
True
>>> shirt_colour == "green"
True
Each value from an enumeration exports its sequence index as an integer, and can be coerced to a simple string matching the original arguments used to create the enumeration:
>>> str(pizza_night)
'fri'
>>> shirt_colour.index
2
Classes
| Enum | Enumerated type |
| EnumValue | A specific value of an enumerated type |
Exceptions
| EnumBadKeyError(key) | Raised when creating an Enum with non-string keys |
| EnumEmptyError | Raised when attempting to create an empty enumeration |
| EnumException() | Base class for all exceptions in this module |
| EnumImmutableError(*args) | Raised when attempting to modify an Enum |