[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

Ethan Furman added the comment: Thanks for the reminder. -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

Irit Katriel added the comment: Is there a bug/documentation change to make here or can this be closed? -- nosy: +iritkatriel status: open -> pending type: crash -> behavior versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker

[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

Ethan Furman added the comment: That sounds more like the way it is intended to be used: make you base enum with all the changes you want, then use that base enum either by inheriting from it or as a function call: class MyBaseEnum(Enum, metaclass=...): ... custom stuff ...

[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

Suhail S. added the comment: In my usecase, I wanted to override the behaviour of __getitem__. I was able to accomplish this by subclassing EnumMeta. Having done so, I was able to work around this bug as follows. Instead of trying to access the functional API via Enum (using an enum as the

[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

Ethan Furman added the comment: Looking at your example I see that you are using an enum as the `type` parameter -- the purpose of `type` is to provide a mixin data type, such as `int` or `str`, not another enum. What is your use-case? Typically, subclassing EnumMeta is not needed.

[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

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[issue43430] Exception raised when attempting to create Enum via functional API

New submission from Suhail S. : It is possible to create custom Enum classes with a metaclass that is a subtype of EnumMeta. It is also possible to inherit from such an enumeration to create another enumeration. However, attempting to do so via the functional API raises an exception. See