Ethan Furman added the comment:

Eli Bendersky added the comment:
>
> The whole point of IntEnum and replacing stdlib constants with it was 
> friendly str & repr out of the box.

Sure, friendly str and repr plus an nice way to work them in code.

> This means that "just printing out" an enum member should have a nice string 
> representation.

And when are you going to print out an enum?  Debugger and/or command line.

> And "just printing out" means:
>
> print(member)
> "%s" % member
> "{}".format(member)

Would you seriously use either of those last two in either the debugger 
or the command line?

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