PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
I don't think that enums should have values (i.e. numbers).<p>Nearly every language does it that way but isn't that just because C originally implemented enums with numbers? Modern languages are much higher level.<p>Java enums don't have any numeric equivalent value, they are just objects, with textual names if you must convert them into something more primative.