Pythonic enums with better string support

June 23, 2022

Enum's in Python were introduced in PEP 435.

• https://www.cosmicpython.com/blog/2020-10-27-i-hate-enums.html

class BRAIN(str, Enum):
    SMALL = 'small'
    MEDIUM = 'medium'
    GALAXY = 'galaxy'
 
    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return str.__str__(self)

• avoids the need to use .value anywhere at all in your code
• enum values duck type to strings in the ways you’d expect
• you can iterate over brain and get string-likes out
• random.choice() is broken
• type hints work