[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 760552ceb8c5f5ca4f1bf13f47543b42b25e0b83 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-41024: doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for '… (GH-20964) (GH-21527)

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks for the PR. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The backport failed for 3.9. I'll trigger it again. Don't see a need to go back to older versions. This is a minor informational note, not a bug. -- versions: -Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +20663 status: pending -> open pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21527 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Vincent Férotin added the comment: Unless I am mistaken, merged pull-request was not backported from master to other potential branches (3.5 -> 3.9 included). There was a message from GitHub 'miss-islington' bot (https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20964#issuecomment-646991186) saying,

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Vincent Férotin added the comment: Explicitly add Raymond Hettinger to nosy list, as he reviewed the corresponding PR. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 344c2a75c1c13de781962a3f80552e66a4c89024 by Vincent Férotin in branch 'master': bpo-41024: doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for '… (GH-20964)

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

Change by vincent-ferotin : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +20142 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20964 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41024] doc: Explicitly mention use of 'enum.Enum' as a valid container for 'choices' argument of 'argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument'

New submission from vincent-ferotin : It is currently not obvious, reading :mod:`argparse` documentation, that :meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument` could accept as 'choices' parameter an :class:`enum.Enum`. However, it seems (at least to me) that this 'choices' parameter [1] is the