[issue17961] Use enum names as values in enum.Enum convenience API

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan:

I encountered an interesting suggestion [1] regarding the enum.Enum convenience API: use the member names as their values, rather than the current integers starting from one.

Since we're now using definition order rather than value order for iteration, this suggestion makes a lot of sense to me.

(again, posting this as something to consider after the accepted PEP is incorporated)

[1] http://www.acooke.org/cute/Pythonssad0.html

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priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Use enum names as values in enum.Enum convenience API
type: enhancement

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