[docs] [issue19040] Problems with overriding Enum.__new__
Eli Bendersky
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Sep 23 15:57:27 CEST 2013
Eli Bendersky added the comment:
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Ethan Furman <report at bugs.python.org>wrote:
>
> Ethan Furman added the comment:
>
> Yup, just trying to add some explanation on how it currently works.
>
> Drekin, I'm sure you've already figured this out, but for those who may
> read this in the future: what you need is a helper function:
>
> def OptionalEnum(value):
> "could also be OptionalEnum(enum, value)"
> try:
> return SomeEnum(value) # or return enum(value)
> except ValueError:
> return value
>
Hmm, looks suspiciously similar to _inienum_converter from socket.py ;-)
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