El mié, 23 jun 2021 a las 19:54, Ethan Furman (<et...@stoneleaf.us>)
escribió:

> TL;DR  I am considering changing IntEnum and IntFlag's `__str__` to be
> `int.__str__`
>
> IntEnum and IntFlag are becoming more common in the stdlib.  They
> currently show up in
>
> * http
> * re
> * signal
> * ssl
> * socket
>
> to name just a few.
>
> 3.10 already has some changes to the str() and repr() of enums in general:
>
> HTTPStatus ->  OK  and  HTTPStatus.OK  instead of HTTPStatus.OK and
> <HTTPStatus.OK: 200>
>
>
> Enum's that are taking the place of global constants have the repr()
> further modified:
>
> RegexFlag -> ASCII  and  re.ASCII  instead of RegexFlag.ASCII and
> <RegexFlag.ASCII: 256>
>
>
> When Enum was first created we also modified the default JSON encoder to
> be able to encode int- and float-based
> enumerations; however, with the continued rise of Python in the world a
> user stumbled upon a stdlib encoder that we
> missed: `urllib.parse.urlencode()` (as seen in issue 33025 [1]).
>
> IIRC enum.IntEnum (and later enum.IntFlag) were introduced so they could
> be drop-in replacements for existing integer
> constants.  At the time I didn't fully appreciate how those constants were
> used in code with regards to str() -- which
> is to say, changing the str() output can be a breaking change, even inside
> the stdlib.
>
> What I would like to do for the enum module is make any supplied mixed-in
> enums a little more vanilla:
>
> * str() is the mixed-in `__str__`, not the Enum `__str__`
> * format() is the mixed-in `__format__`, not the Enum `__format__` (this
> is the current effective behavior already)
>
> Other benefits, particularly repr(), would remain.  Note that a mixed enum
> created by a user would have the normal Enum
> `__str__` and `__format__`.
>
>
> Summary:  mixed enums provided in the enum module should maintain the
> mixed data types `__str__` and `__format__`.
>
> Thoughts?
>

This seems like it's going to be a backwards incompatible change that may
turn out to be fairly disruptive for the codebase I have to maintain. We
use IntEnum heavily and any change in behavior is likely to require
migration work. I'm already pretty worried about the other enum changes in
3.10.


>
> --
> ~Ethan~
>
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.python.org/issue33025
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