Falsey Enums

[Ben Finney]

Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:

> class X(Enum):
>     Falsey = 0
>     Truthy = 1
>     Fakey = 2
>     def __bool__(self):
>         return bool(self.value)

I am surprised this is not already the behaviour of an Enum class,
without overriding the ‘__bool__’ method.

What would be a good reason not to have this behaviour by default for
‘Enum.__bool__’? (i.e. if this were reported as a bug on the ‘enum.Enum’
implementation, what would be good reasons not to fix it?)

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Ben Finney