From the python Docs:
Enum: Base class for creating enumerated constants.
and:
IntEnum: Base class for creating enumerated constants that are also subclasses of int.
it says that members of an IntEnum
can be compared to integers; by extension, integer enumerations of different types can also be compared to each other.
look at the below example:
class Shape(IntEnum):
CIRCLE = 1
SQUARE = 2
class Color(Enum):
RED = 1
GREEN = 2
Shape.CIRCLE == Color.RED
>> False
Shape.CIRCLE == 1
>>True
and they will behave same as an integer:
['a', 'b', 'c'][Shape.CIRCLE]
>> 'b'