Use Enum value without .value attribute

Question

class Color(Enum):
    GREEN = '#1c5f17'
    BLUE = '#565fcc'

Is it possible to call
Color.GREEN and return ‘#1c5f17’?

I don’t want to call Color.GREEN.value everytime I want to use this.

Asked By: Nepo Znat

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Answer 1

If you want the traditional-style “call”, just drop the inheritance from Enum:

class Color:
    GREEN = '#1c5f17'
    BLUE = '#565fcc'

Answered By: iBug

Answer 2

Since Python 3.8, you can use assignment expressions:

class Color(Enum):
    GREEN = (Green := '...')
    BLUE = (Blue := '...')

Now, you can keep all the inherited behavior of enums while accessing attributes without .value like this:

my_color = Color.Green

Answered By: Mourad Qqch

Answer 3

IIRC prior to Python 3.11 the official documentation recommended subclassing string:

class Sample(str, Enum):
    FOO = "foo"
    BAR = "bar"
    BAZ = "baz"

    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return str.__str__(self)

print(Sample.FOO)
>>> foo

But python 3.11+ users can import StrEnum:

from enum import StrEnum, auto

class Sample(StrEnum):
    FOO = auto()
    BAR = auto()
    BAZ = auto()

Note: Using auto with StrEnum results in the lower-cased member name as the value.

print(Sample.FOO)
>>> foo

If you prefer uppercase values:

from enum import StrEnum

class Sample(StrEnum):
    FOO = "FOO"
    BAR = "BAR"
    BAZ = "BAZ"

print(Sample.FOO)
>>> FOO

Answered By: Jarrod Burns

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