Enum Compat

0.0.3 · deprecated · verified Thu Apr 09

A 'virtual' package (version 0.0.3) designed to provide `enum.Enum` compatibility across Python versions. Its sole purpose is to install the `enum34` backport on Python versions older than 3.4. On Python 3.4 and later, it acts as a no-op, as `enum` is part of the standard library. The project's last release was in October 2019, and it has no active development or release cadence.

Warnings

breaking The `enum-compat` package is explicitly discouraged for direct use by its maintainer. You should directly depend on `enum34` with a version specifier for older Python versions (e.g., `'enum34; python_version < "3.4"'`) in your `install_requires` instead of `enum-compat`.
Fix: Remove `enum-compat` from your dependencies. Instead, specify `enum34` conditionally for Python versions less than 3.4 directly in your `setup.py` or `pyproject.toml`.
gotcha On Python 3.4 and newer, `enum` is part of the standard library. Installing `enum-compat` (or `enum34`) on these versions is redundant and serves no functional purpose, potentially leading to confusion about the source of the `enum` module.
Fix: Ensure your project's dependency management (e.g., `setup.py`, `pyproject.toml`) only installs `enum34` when `python_version < "3.4"`.
deprecated The `enum-compat` package has not seen updates since 2019 and explicitly recommends against its own use. It targets a compatibility problem for Python versions that are now past their end-of-life (Python 2.x, Python 3.0-3.3).
Fix: Modern Python projects (Python 3.8+) should directly use the built-in `enum` module. For projects requiring Python 3.4-3.7, `enum` is built-in. Only very old projects requiring Python < 3.4 might have a legitimate, though discouraged, reason to use `enum34` directly.

Install

pip install enum-compat Install enum-compat

Imports

Enum
```
from enum import Enum
```
enum-compat itself does not provide symbols for direct import; its purpose is to ensure `from enum import Enum` works correctly across Python versions by conditionally installing enum34.

Quickstart

This quickstart demonstrates the usage of Python's `enum.Enum` type, which `enum-compat` ensures is available. On Python 3.4+ this comes from the standard library; on older versions, `enum-compat` makes the `enum34` backport available as `enum`.

from enum import Enum

class Color(Enum):
    RED = 1
    GREEN = 2
    BLUE = 3

print(Color.RED)
print(Color.RED.value)
print(Color.GREEN.name)

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