On May 01, 2013, at 03:11 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

>The reason __int__ is there is because pure Enums should be using plain ints
>as their value 95% or more of the time, and being able to easily convert to a
>real int for either database storage, wire transmission, or C functions is a
>Good Thing.

But then, Foo.a.value is good enough.