I would like to create an enum type at runtime by reading the values in a YAML file. So I have this:
# Fetch the values v = {'foo':42, 'bar':24} # Create the enum e = type('Enum', (), v) Is there a proper way to do it? I feel calling type is not a very neat solution.
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You can create new enum type using Enum functional API:
In [1]: import enum In [2]: DynamicEnum = enum.Enum('DynamicEnum', {'foo':42, 'bar':24}) In [3]: type(DynamicEnum) Out[3]: enum.EnumMeta In [4]: DynamicEnum.foo Out[4]: <DynamicEnum.foo: 42> In [5]: DynamicEnum.bar Out[5]: <DynamicEnum.bar: 24> In [6]: list(DynamicEnum) Out[6]: [<DynamicEnum.foo: 42>, <DynamicEnum.bar: 24>] 
