8.13. enum — 支持枚举

3.4 版新增。

源代码: Lib/enum.py


枚举是绑定到唯一常量值的一组符号名称 (成员)。在枚举中,成员可以通过身份进行比较,且枚举本身还可以迭代。

8.13.1. 模块内容

This module defines two enumeration classes that can be used to define unique sets of names and values: Enum and IntEnum 。它还定义了一个装饰器 unique() .

class 枚举。 Enum

用于创建枚举常量的基类。见章节 函数式 API 了解替代构造句法。

class 枚举。 IntEnum

Base class for creating enumerated constants that are also subclasses of int .

枚举。 unique ( )

Enum class decorator that ensures only one name is bound to any one value.

8.13.2. 创建枚举

枚举的创建是使用 class syntax, which makes them easy to read and write. An alternative creation method is described in 函数式 API 。要定义枚举,子类 Enum 如下:

>>> from enum import Enum
>>> class Color(Enum):
...     red = 1
...     green = 2
...     blue = 3
...
					

注意

Nomenclature

  • Color enumeration (或 enum )
  • 属性 Color.red , Color.green ,等,是 enumeration 成员 (或 enum 成员 ).
  • 枚举成员拥有 名称 and (名称对于 Color.red is red ,值对于 Color.blue is 3 ,等)

注意

即使使用 class 句法能创建 Enum, 但 Enum 不是正常 Python 类。见 枚举有什么不同? 了解更多细节。

enumeration 成员拥有人类可读的字符串表示:

>>> print(Color.red)
Color.red
					

...while their repr 拥有更多信息:

>>> print(repr(Color.red))
<Color.red: 1>
					

The type of an enumeration member is the enumeration it belongs to:

>>> type(Color.red)
<enum 'Color'>
>>> isinstance(Color.green, Color)
True
>>>
					

枚举成员还有恰好包含其项名称的特性:

>>> print(Color.red.name)
red
					

枚举支持迭代,按定义次序:

>>> class Shake(Enum):
...     vanilla = 7
...     chocolate = 4
...     cookies = 9
...     mint = 3
...
>>> for shake in Shake:
...     print(shake)
...
Shake.vanilla
Shake.chocolate
Shake.cookies
Shake.mint
					

枚举成员可哈希,因此它们可用于字典和集:

>>> apples = {}
>>> apples[Color.red] = 'red delicious'
>>> apples[Color.green] = 'granny smith'
>>> apples == {Color.red: 'red delicious', Color.green: 'granny smith'}
True
					

8.13.3. Programmatic access to enumeration members and their attributes

Sometimes it’s useful to access members in enumerations programmatically (i.e. situations where Color.red won’t do because the exact color is not known at program-writing time). Enum allows such access:

>>> Color(1)
<Color.red: 1>
>>> Color(3)
<Color.blue: 3>
					

若想要访问枚举成员通过 name ,使用项访问:

>>> Color['red']
<Color.red: 1>
>>> Color['green']
<Color.green: 2>
					

若有枚举成员且需要其 name or value :

>>> member = Color.red
>>> member.name
'red'
>>> member.value
1
					

8.13.4. Duplicating enum members and values

拥有 2 同名成员的枚举是无效的:

>>> class Shape(Enum):
...     square = 2
...     square = 3
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: Attempted to reuse key: 'square'
					

However, two enum members are allowed to have the same value. Given two members A and B with the same value (and A defined first), B is an alias to A. By-value lookup of the value of A and B will return A. By-name lookup of B will also return A:

>>> class Shape(Enum):
...     square = 2
...     diamond = 1
...     circle = 3
...     alias_for_square = 2
...
>>> Shape.square
<Shape.square: 2>
>>> Shape.alias_for_square
<Shape.square: 2>
>>> Shape(2)
<Shape.square: 2>
					

注意

Attempting to create a member with the same name as an already defined attribute (another member, a method, etc.) or attempting to create an attribute with the same name as a member is not allowed.

8.13.5. Ensuring unique enumeration values

By default, enumerations allow multiple names as aliases for the same value. When this behavior isn’t desired, the following decorator can be used to ensure each value is used only once in the enumeration:

@ 枚举。 unique

A class decorator specifically for enumerations. It searches an enumeration’s __members__ gathering any aliases it finds; if any are found ValueError is raised with the details:

>>> from enum import Enum, unique
>>> @unique
... class Mistake(Enum):
...     one = 1
...     two = 2
...     three = 3
...     four = 3
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: duplicate values found in <enum 'Mistake'>: four -> three
					

8.13.6. Iteration

Iterating over the members of an enum does not provide the aliases:

>>> list(Shape)
[<Shape.square: 2>, <Shape.diamond: 1>, <Shape.circle: 3>]
					

The special attribute __members__ is an ordered dictionary mapping names to members. It includes all names defined in the enumeration, including the aliases:

>>> for name, member in Shape.__members__.items():
...     name, member
...
('square', <Shape.square: 2>)
('diamond', <Shape.diamond: 1>)
('circle', <Shape.circle: 3>)
('alias_for_square', <Shape.square: 2>)
					

The __members__ attribute can be used for detailed programmatic access to the enumeration members. For example, finding all the aliases:

>>> [name for name, member in Shape.__members__.items() if member.name != name]
['alias_for_square']
					

8.13.7. Comparisons

Enumeration members are compared by identity:

>>> Color.red is Color.red
True
>>> Color.red is Color.blue
False
>>> Color.red is not Color.blue
True
					

Ordered comparisons between enumeration values are not supported. Enum members are not integers (but see IntEnum below):

>>> Color.red < Color.blue
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unorderable types: Color() < Color()
					

Equality comparisons are defined though:

>>> Color.blue == Color.red
False
>>> Color.blue != Color.red
True
>>> Color.blue == Color.blue
True
					

Comparisons against non-enumeration values will always compare not equal (again, IntEnum was explicitly designed to behave differently, see below):

>>> Color.blue == 2
False
					

8.13.8. Allowed members and attributes of enumerations

The examples above use integers for enumeration values. Using integers is short and handy (and provided by default by the 函数式 API ), but not strictly enforced. In the vast majority of use-cases, one doesn’t care what the actual value of an enumeration is. But if the value is important, enumerations can have arbitrary values.

Enumerations are Python classes, and can have methods and special methods as usual. If we have this enumeration:

>>> class Mood(Enum):
...     funky = 1
...     happy = 3
...
...     def describe(self):
...         # self is the member here
...         return self.name, self.value
...
...     def __str__(self):
...         return 'my custom str! {0}'.format(self.value)
...
...     @classmethod
...     def favorite_mood(cls):
...         # cls here is the enumeration
...         return cls.happy
...
					

Then:

>>> Mood.favorite_mood()
<Mood.happy: 3>
>>> Mood.happy.describe()
('happy', 3)
>>> str(Mood.funky)
'my custom str! 1'
					

The rules for what is allowed are as follows: _sunder_ names (starting and ending with a single underscore) are reserved by enum and cannot be used; all other attributes defined within an enumeration will become members of this enumeration, with the exception of __dunder__ names and descriptors (methods are also descriptors).

Note: if your enumeration defines __new__() and/or __init__() then whatever value(s) were given to the enum member will be passed into those methods. See Planet 范例。

8.13.9. Restricted subclassing of enumerations

Subclassing an enumeration is allowed only if the enumeration does not define any members. So this is forbidden:

>>> class MoreColor(Color):
...     pink = 17
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: Cannot extend enumerations
					

But this is allowed:

>>> class Foo(Enum):
...     def some_behavior(self):
...         pass
...
>>> class Bar(Foo):
...     happy = 1
...     sad = 2
...
					

Allowing subclassing of enums that define members would lead to a violation of some important invariants of types and instances. On the other hand, it makes sense to allow sharing some common behavior between a group of enumerations. (See OrderedEnum for an example.)

8.13.10. Pickling

Enumerations can be pickled and unpickled:

>>> from test.test_enum import Fruit
>>> from pickle import dumps, loads
>>> Fruit.tomato is loads(dumps(Fruit.tomato))
True
					

The usual restrictions for pickling apply: picklable enums must be defined in the top level of a module, since unpickling requires them to be importable from that module.

注意

With pickle protocol version 4 it is possible to easily pickle enums nested in other classes.

It is possible to modify how Enum members are pickled/unpickled by defining __reduce_ex__() in the enumeration class.

8.13.11. Functional API

The Enum 类可调用,提供以下 API 功能:

>>> Animal = Enum('Animal', 'ant bee cat dog')
>>> Animal
<enum 'Animal'>
>>> Animal.ant
<Animal.ant: 1>
>>> Animal.ant.value
1
>>> list(Animal)
[<Animal.ant: 1>, <Animal.bee: 2>, <Animal.cat: 3>, <Animal.dog: 4>]
					

The semantics of this API resemble namedtuple . The first argument of the call to Enum is the name of the enumeration.

The second argument is the source of enumeration member names. It can be a whitespace-separated string of names, a sequence of names, a sequence of 2-tuples with key/value pairs, or a mapping (e.g. dictionary) of names to values. The last two options enable assigning arbitrary values to enumerations; the others auto-assign increasing integers starting with 1. A new class derived from Enum is returned. In other words, the above assignment to Animal 相当于:

>>> class Animal(Enum):
...     ant = 1
...     bee = 2
...     cat = 3
...     dog = 4
...
					

The reason for defaulting to 1 as the starting number and not 0 is that 0 is False in a boolean sense, but enum members all evaluate to True .

Pickling enums created with the functional API can be tricky as frame stack implementation details are used to try and figure out which module the enumeration is being created in (e.g. it will fail if you use a utility function in separate module, and also may not work on IronPython or Jython). The solution is to specify the module name explicitly as follows:

>>> Animal = Enum('Animal', 'ant bee cat dog', module=__name__)
					

警告

module is not supplied, and Enum cannot determine what it is, the new Enum members will not be unpicklable; to keep errors closer to the source, pickling will be disabled.

The new pickle protocol 4 also, in some circumstances, relies on __qualname__ being set to the location where pickle will be able to find the class. For example, if the class was made available in class SomeData in the global scope:

>>> Animal = Enum('Animal', 'ant bee cat dog', qualname='SomeData.Animal')
					

The complete signature is:

Enum(value='NewEnumName', names=<...>, *, module='...', qualname='...', type=<mixed-in class>)
					
值:

What the new Enum class will record as its name.

名称:

The Enum members. This can be a whitespace or comma separated string (values will start at 1):

'red green blue' | 'red,green,blue' | 'red, green, blue'
									

或名称迭代器:

['red', 'green', 'blue']
									

或 (name, value) 对迭代器:

[('cyan', 4), ('magenta', 5), ('yellow', 6)]
									

或映射:

{'chartreuse': 7, 'sea_green': 11, 'rosemary': 42}
									
模块:

name of module where new Enum class can be found.

qualname:

where in module new Enum class can be found.

类型:

能混入新 Enum 类的类型。

8.13.12. Derived Enumerations

8.13.12.1. IntEnum

A variation of Enum is provided which is also a subclass of int . Members of an IntEnum can be compared to integers; by extension, integer enumerations of different types can also be compared to each other:

>>> from enum import IntEnum
>>> class Shape(IntEnum):
...     circle = 1
...     square = 2
...
>>> class Request(IntEnum):
...     post = 1
...     get = 2
...
>>> Shape == 1
False
>>> Shape.circle == 1
True
>>> Shape.circle == Request.post
True
					

However, they still can’t be compared to standard Enum 枚举:

>>> class Shape(IntEnum):
...     circle = 1
...     square = 2
...
>>> class Color(Enum):
...     red = 1
...     green = 2
...
>>> Shape.circle == Color.red
False
					

IntEnum values behave like integers in other ways you’d expect:

>>> int(Shape.circle)
1
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'][Shape.circle]
'b'
>>> [i for i in range(Shape.square)]
[0, 1]
					

For the vast majority of code, Enum is strongly recommended, since IntEnum breaks some semantic promises of an enumeration (by being comparable to integers, and thus by transitivity to other unrelated enumerations). It should be used only in special cases where there’s no other choice; for example, when integer constants are replaced with enumerations and backwards compatibility is required with code that still expects integers.

8.13.12.2. Others

While IntEnum 属于 enum module, it would be very simple to implement independently:

class IntEnum(int, Enum):
    pass
					

This demonstrates how similar derived enumerations can be defined; for example a StrEnum that mixes in str 而不是 int .

一些规则:

  1. 当子类化 Enum , mix-in types must appear before Enum itself in the sequence of bases, as in the IntEnum example above.
  2. While Enum can have members of any type, once you mix in an additional type, all the members must have values of that type, e.g. int above. This restriction does not apply to mix-ins which only add methods and don’t specify another data type such as int or str .
  3. When another data type is mixed in, the value 属性为 not the same as the enum member itself, although it is equivalent and will compare equal.
  4. %-style formatting: %s and %r call Enum ‘s __str__() and __repr__() respectively; other codes (such as %i or %h for IntEnum) treat the enum member as its mixed-in type.
  5. str.__format__() (或 format() ) will use the mixed-in type’s __format__() 。若 Enum ‘s str() or repr() is desired use the !s or !r str format codes.

8.13.13. Interesting examples

While Enum and IntEnum are expected to cover the majority of use-cases, they cannot cover them all. Here are recipes for some different types of enumerations that can be used directly, or as examples for creating one’s own.

8.13.13.1. AutoNumber

Avoids having to specify the value for each enumeration member:

>>> class AutoNumber(Enum):
...     def __new__(cls):
...         value = len(cls.__members__) + 1
...         obj = object.__new__(cls)
...         obj._value_ = value
...         return obj
...
>>> class Color(AutoNumber):
...     red = ()
...     green = ()
...     blue = ()
...
>>> Color.green.value == 2
True
					

注意

The __new__() method, if defined, is used during creation of the Enum members; it is then replaced by Enum’s __new__() which is used after class creation for lookup of existing members.

8.13.13.2. OrderedEnum

An ordered enumeration that is not based on IntEnum and so maintains the normal Enum invariants (such as not being comparable to other enumerations):

>>> class OrderedEnum(Enum):
...     def __ge__(self, other):
...         if self.__class__ is other.__class__:
...             return self.value >= other.value
...         return NotImplemented
...     def __gt__(self, other):
...         if self.__class__ is other.__class__:
...             return self.value > other.value
...         return NotImplemented
...     def __le__(self, other):
...         if self.__class__ is other.__class__:
...             return self.value <= other.value
...         return NotImplemented
...     def __lt__(self, other):
...         if self.__class__ is other.__class__:
...             return self.value < other.value
...         return NotImplemented
...
>>> class Grade(OrderedEnum):
...     A = 5
...     B = 4
...     C = 3
...     D = 2
...     F = 1
...
>>> Grade.C < Grade.A
True
					

8.13.13.3. DuplicateFreeEnum

引发错误,若发现成员名称重复而不是创建别名:

>>> class DuplicateFreeEnum(Enum):
...     def __init__(self, *args):
...         cls = self.__class__
...         if any(self.value == e.value for e in cls):
...             a = self.name
...             e = cls(self.value).name
...             raise ValueError(
...                 "aliases not allowed in DuplicateFreeEnum:  %r --> %r"
...                 % (a, e))
...
>>> class Color(DuplicateFreeEnum):
...     red = 1
...     green = 2
...     blue = 3
...     grene = 2
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: aliases not allowed in DuplicateFreeEnum:  'grene' --> 'green'
					

注意

This is a useful example for subclassing Enum to add or change other behaviors as well as disallowing aliases. If the only desired change is disallowing aliases, the unique() decorator can be used instead.

8.13.13.4. Planet

__new__() or __init__() is defined the value of the enum member will be passed to those methods:

>>> class Planet(Enum):
...     MERCURY = (3.303e+23, 2.4397e6)
...     VENUS   = (4.869e+24, 6.0518e6)
...     EARTH   = (5.976e+24, 6.37814e6)
...     MARS    = (6.421e+23, 3.3972e6)
...     JUPITER = (1.9e+27,   7.1492e7)
...     SATURN  = (5.688e+26, 6.0268e7)
...     URANUS  = (8.686e+25, 2.5559e7)
...     NEPTUNE = (1.024e+26, 2.4746e7)
...     def __init__(self, mass, radius):
...         self.mass = mass       # in kilograms
...         self.radius = radius   # in meters
...     @property
...     def surface_gravity(self):
...         # universal gravitational constant  (m3 kg-1 s-2)
...         G = 6.67300E-11
...         return G * self.mass / (self.radius * self.radius)
...
>>> Planet.EARTH.value
(5.976e+24, 6378140.0)
>>> Planet.EARTH.surface_gravity
9.802652743337129
					

8.13.14. How are Enums different?

Enums have a custom metaclass that affects many aspects of both derived Enum classes and their instances (members).

8.13.14.1. Enum Classes

The EnumMeta metaclass is responsible for providing the __contains__() , __dir__() , __iter__() and other methods that allow one to do things with an Enum class that fail on a typical class, such as list(Color) or some_var in Color . EnumMeta is responsible for ensuring that various other methods on the final Enum class are correct (such as __new__() , __getnewargs__() , __str__() and __repr__() ).

8.13.14.2. Enum Members (aka instances)

The most interesting thing about Enum members is that they are singletons. EnumMeta creates them all while it is creating the Enum class itself, and then puts a custom __new__() in place to ensure that no new ones are ever instantiated by returning only the existing member instances.

8.13.14.3. Finer Points

Enum members are instances of an Enum class, and even though they are accessible as EnumClass.member , they are not accessible directly from the member:

>>> Color.red
<Color.red: 1>
>>> Color.red.blue
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: 'Color' object has no attribute 'blue'
					

Likewise, the __members__ is only available on the class.

若给出 Enum 子类额外方法,像 Planet class above, those methods will show up in a dir() of the member, but not of the class:

>>> dir(Planet)
['EARTH', 'JUPITER', 'MARS', 'MERCURY', 'NEPTUNE', 'SATURN', 'URANUS', 'VENUS', '__class__', '__doc__', '__members__', '__module__']
>>> dir(Planet.EARTH)
['__class__', '__doc__', '__module__', 'name', 'surface_gravity', 'value']
					

The __new__() method will only be used for the creation of the Enum members – after that it is replaced. Any custom __new__() method must create the object and set the _value_ attribute appropriately.

If you wish to change how Enum members are looked up you should either write a helper function or a classmethod() Enum 子类。