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

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:

On May 12, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>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.

Cute, but I want the functional API to be equivalent to the class syntax.

Besides:

X = Enum('X', ((name, name) for name in 'ant bee cat dog elk'.split()))

is not so much typing.

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