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

Answer 1

I started with something that looks a lot like S.Lott's answer but I only overloaded 'str' and 'eq' (instead of the whole object class) so I could print and compare the enum's value.

class enumSeason():
    Spring = 0
    Summer = 1
    Fall = 2
    Winter = 3
    def __init__(self, Type):
        self.value = Type
    def __str__(self):
        if self.value == enumSeason.Spring:
            return 'Spring'
        if self.value == enumSeason.Summer:
            return 'Summer'
        if self.value == enumSeason.Fall:
            return 'Fall'
        if self.value == enumSeason.Winter:
            return 'Winter'
    def __eq__(self,y):
        return self.value==y.value

Print(x) will yield the name instead of the value and two values holding Spring will be equal to one another.

   >>> x = enumSeason(enumSeason.Spring)
   >>> print(x)
   Spring
   >>> y = enumSeason(enumSeason.Spring)
   >>> x == y
   True