Should nested classes in an Enum be Enum members?

[Ben Finney]

Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:

> On 06/28/2018 05:58 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > So I remain dumbfounded as to why anyone would want a class to *both* be
> > an enumerated type, *and* have callable attributes in its API.
>
> Perhaps I am using Enum incorrectly, but here is my FederalHoliday
> Enum. […]

Thanks for the example. Yes, my personal impression is that class
is not a good use of enum.Enum (nor enum.AutoEnum).

To inherit from enum.Enum (or enum.AutoEnum) signals, to my mind, that
the class is not really intended as a typical Python class, but instead
is intended to be that special beast known as an “enumerated type” which
has little behaviour other than being a namespace for constant values.

Adding all that other stuff just makes it quite unclear what the class
means any more.

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