Enum is the base class for all enum enumerations.
class enum.Enum
>>> Color.BLUE.name
'BLUE'
>>> Color.RED.value
1
>>> from datetime import date
>>> class Weekday(Enum):
... MONDAY = 1
... TUESDAY = 2
... WEDNESDAY = 3
... THURSDAY = 4
... FRIDAY = 5
... SATURDAY = 6
... SUNDAY = 7
... @classmethod
... def today(cls):
... print('today is %s' % cls(date.today().isoweekday()).name)
>>> dir(Weekday.SATURDAY)
['__class__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__hash__', '__module__', 'name', 'today', 'value']
>>> from enum import auto
>>> class PowersOfThree(Enum):
... @staticmethod
... def _generate_next_value_(name, start, count, last_values):
... return 3 ** (count + 1)
... FIRST = auto()
... SECOND = auto()
>>> PowersOfThree.SECOND.value
9
>>> from enum import StrEnum
>>> class Build(StrEnum):
... DEBUG = auto()
... OPTIMIZED = auto()
... @classmethod
... def _missing_(cls, value):
... value = value.lower()
... for member in cls:
... if member.value == value:
... return member
... return None
>>> Build.DEBUG.value
'debug'
>>> Build('deBUG')
<Build.DEBUG: 'debug'>