class Color(Enum): GREEN = '#1c5f17' BLUE = '#565fcc' Is it possible to call Color.GREEN and return '#1c5f17'?
I don't want to call Color.GREEN.value everytime I want to use this.
3 Answers
If you want the traditional-style "call", just drop the inheritance from Enum:
class Color: GREEN = '#1c5f17' BLUE = '#565fcc' 4 Comments
Shankara Narayana
I wonder how this compares to Jarrod Burns's answer
iBug
@ShankaraNarayana Look at the dates of the answers.
Oliver Coleman
Trouble with this is it doesn't make the class immutable, which for me is the main reason for using Enum.
Greg7000
I am trying to love Enum but the .value is really annoying so I often result to this.
IIRC prior to Python 3.11 the official documentation recommended subclassing string:
class Sample(str, Enum): FOO = "foo" BAR = "bar" BAZ = "baz" def __str__(self) -> str: return str.__str__(self) print(Sample.FOO) >>> foo But python 3.11+ users can import StrEnum:
from enum import StrEnum, auto class Sample(StrEnum): FOO = auto() BAR = auto() BAZ = auto() Note: Using auto with StrEnum results in the lower-cased member name as the value.
print(Sample.FOO) >>> foo If you prefer uppercase values:
from enum import StrEnum class Sample(StrEnum): FOO = "FOO" BAR = "BAR" BAZ = "BAZ" print(Sample.FOO) >>> FOO 
2 Comments
Lukas
Your solution is wrong and don't answer the OP question. print() works different from calling the value of the enum. So passing it as a variable still will pass a enum value. I will give you a simple example: >> class TequilaUrls(StrEnum): BASE_URL = "api.tequila.kiwi.com" FLIGHT_SEARCH = BASE_URL + "v2/search?" FIND_LOCATION = BASE_URL + "locations/query?" >> TequilaUrls.BASE_URL <TequilaUrls.BASE_URL: 'api.tequila.kiwi.com'> So, if you wan to pass it as a string, you still have to use value().
Stephanie Burns
@Lukas I believe you have misunderstood the question, and that you are applying your own circumstances to the topic.
I wanted to Enum some variables to be used as indexes in a big matrix, and I also wanted to remove the .value necessity of the default implementation so I came up with this:
from enum import IntEnum, auto class CustomIntEnum(IntEnum): def __int__(self) -> int: return int.__int__(int(self.value)) class Ex(CustomIntEnum): x = 0 y = auto() print(f"ex.x = {Ex.x} is of type {type(Ex.x)}") print(f"ex.y = {Ex.y} is of type {type(Ex.y)}") array = [5, 6, 7, 8] print(f"but it can be used as index, for example in {array}[ex.x] => {array[Ex.x]}") results in:
0 is of type <enum 'ex'> 1 is of type <enum 'ex'> but it can be used as index, for example in [5, 6, 7, 8][ex.x] => 5 Process finished with exit code 0 
Color.GREEN.valueanywhere, you'd haveColor.GREENbeing used at a high level of abstraction, andcolor.valuedown at a lower level.