Alex Waygood <alex.wayg...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks, Nikita! My bad for not adding tests for __new__ in PR 29316.
To confirm: yes, my idea in PR 29316 was that "__new__" (along with most enum dunders) should not show up in the output of dir(Enum), but should show up in dir(EnumSubclass) if and only if __new__ has been overridden outside of enum.py. That's because, unlike with most Python classes, the fact that enum.Enum has a __new__ method or a __format__ method doesn't really tell you very much about enum.Enum's behaviour, due to how magical enums are. But if it's been overridden in a custom Enum subclass, that does tell you that the enum class has special behaviour in some way — the HTTPStatus enum at Lib/http/__init__.py:6 is a really good example of that. But you're right: the existing code doesn't work as expected, at all: ``` >>> from http import HTTPStatus >>> '__new__' in dir(HTTPStatus) False ``` ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46269> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
