How should I best emulate and/or avoid enum's in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

The most common enum case is enumerated values that are part of a State or Strategy design pattern. The enums are specific states or specific optional strategies to be used. In this case, they're almost always part and parcel of some class definition

class DoTheNeedful( object ):
    ONE_CHOICE = 1
    ANOTHER_CHOICE = 2 
    YET_ANOTHER = 99
    def __init__( self, aSelection ):
        assert aSelection in ( self.ONE_CHOICE, self.ANOTHER_CHOICE, self.YET_ANOTHER )
        self.selection= aSelection

Then, in a client of this class.

dtn = DoTheNeeful( DoTheNeeful.ONE_CHOICE )