[Python-ideas] Re: Make dataclass aware that it might be used with Enum

On 7/7/22 09:01, Steve Jorgensen wrote:

Actually, maybe these are fundamentally incompatible?

Their intended use seems fundamentally incompatible: - dataclass was designed for making many mutable records (hundreds, thousands, or more) - enum was designed to make a handful of named constants (I haven't yet seen one with even a hundred elements) The repr from a combined dataclass/enum looks like a dataclass, giving no clue that the object is an enum, and omitting any information about which enum member it is and which enum it is from. Given these conflicts of interest, I don't see any dataclass examples making it into the enum documentation. -- ~Ethan~