After messing around with `Enum` for a while, there's one small thing that I'd like to see improved. It seems limiting to me that the only way to trigger `_generate_next_value` is to pass `auto()`.
What if, for a particular `Enum`, I would like to be able to use `()` as a shorthand for `auto()`? How about a more complex auto-generation that determines the final value based on both the given value and the name/key As an example of the second case, start with an `Enum` subclas in which each item, by default, has the name/key as its value and a prettified version of the name as its label, but one can also specify the value and label using a 2-item tuple for the value. Now, let's say we want to be able to specify a custom label and still use the name/key as the value either as a None/label tuple or as a string starting with a comma. Using a custom test for auto, one could identify those cases, Passing the assigned value to the `_generate_next_value_` function would allow it to make use of that information. For backward compatibility, the signature of the `_generate_next_value_` function can be checked to make sure it can accept the extra argument for that before passing that. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/RTH5D7WBI4KBOYHO6WYPNQDGJILLKO5Y/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
