[issue26988] Add AutoNumberedEnum to stdlib

[Ethan Furman]

Ethan Furman added the comment:

I like AutoEnum.

Another auto-related thought:  one of the more common Enum questions on StackOverflow is how to automatically have the value be the stringified version of the name:

class Huh(Enum):
  this
  that
  those

Huh.this.name == Huh.this.value
# True

So the question then becomes: is there a way to easily support both auto-number and auto-string values?

While I don't have the auto-string feature yet in aenum, the system I am using to specify optional settings looks like this:

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class Color(Enum, settings=AutoNumber):
  red
  ...
------

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class Color(IntEnum, settings=AutoNumber):
  red
  ...
------

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class Color(Enum, settings=AutoName):
  red
  ...
------


The other option, of course, is to just stick with the prebuilt method of doing things:

class Color(AutoEnum):
  ...

class Color(AutoEnum, IntEnum):
  ...

class Color(AutoNameEnum):
  ...

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