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

Ethan Furman wrote:
> 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~

Per my subsequent self-reply, they are only incompatible when trying to do them at the same time in the same class definition. It works great to combine them by defining the dataclass as a mixin for the Enum class. Why would it not be good to include that as an example in the official docs, assuming (as I believe) that it is a particularly useful combination?