Maybe it is time to deemphasize the creation and passing of what is, in effect, bit-sets <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array>as a single argument, and instead promote the passing of a set of members of an enum.Enum <https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html> constants.
Thi comes about because someone wrote a description, (since deleted), of constructing bit-sets to use in passing flags to, for example, the re.compile <https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.compile>function. The use of individual bits in a bit-array/bit-set to pass multiple flags is an implementation detail. Should we not *first *teach the passing of a set of enum.Enum constant values in one argument as the *pythonic *way; and leave bit-sets and other types of enum's as a performance or interoperability detail? Comments please, (And a happy new year to you :-)
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