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| author | Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> | 2020-12-10 20:20:06 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-12-10 20:20:06 (GMT) |
| commit | efb13be72cbf49edf591936fafb120fe1b7d59f7 (patch) | |
| tree | b35ffdea85d002cac1789a48c99287e5ca75a358 /Doc/library | |
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bpo-42385: [Enum] add `_generate_next_value_` to StrEnum (GH-23735)
The default for auto() is to return an integer, which doesn't work for `StrEnum`. The new `_generate_next_value_` for `StrEnum` returns the member name, lower cased.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/enum.rst b/Doc/library/enum.rst index a9584b9..a0b078c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/enum.rst +++ b/Doc/library/enum.rst @@ -67,10 +67,12 @@ helper, :class:`auto`. .. class:: auto - Instances are replaced with an appropriate value for Enum members. By default, the initial value starts at 1. + Instances are replaced with an appropriate value for Enum members. + :class:`StrEnum` defaults to the lower-cased version of the member name, + while other Enums default to 1 and increase from there. .. versionadded:: 3.6 ``Flag``, ``IntFlag``, ``auto`` - +.. versionadded:: 3.10 ``StrEnum`` Creating an Enum ---------------- |