With pickle protocol version 4 it is possible to easily pickle enums
nested in other classes.
+It is possible to modify how Enum members are pickled/unpickled by defining
+:meth:`__reduce_ex__` in the enumeration class.
+
Functional API
--------------
>>> Animals = Enum('Animals', 'ant bee cat dog', module=__name__)
+.. warning::
+
+ If :param module: is not supplied, and Enum cannot determine what it is,
+ the new Enum members will not be unpicklable; to keep errors closer to
+ the source, pickling will be disabled.
+
The new pickle protocol 4 also, in some circumstances, relies on
:attr:`__qualname__` being set to the location where pickle will be able
to find the class. For example, if the class was made available in class
>>> Animals = Enum('Animals', 'ant bee cat dog', qualname='SomeData.Animals')
+The complete signature is::
+
+ Enum(value='NewEnumName', names=<...>, *, module='...', qualname='...', type=<mixed-in class>)
+
+:param value: What the new Enum class will record as its name.
+
+:param names: The Enum members. This can be a whitespace or comma seperated
+string::
+
+ 'red green blue', 'red,green,blue', 'red, green, blue'
+
+(values will start at 1), or an iterator of name, value pairs::
+
+ [('cyan', 4), ('magenta', 5), ('yellow', 6)]
+
+or a mapping::
+
+ {'chartruese': 7, 'sea_green': 11, 'rosemary': 42}
+
+:param module: name of module where new Enum class can be found.
+
+:param qualname: where in module new Enum class can be found.
+
+:param type: type to mix in to new Enum class.
+
Derived Enumerations
--------------------
# Reverse value->name map for hashable values.
enum_class._value2member_map_ = {}
- # check for a supported pickle protocols, and if not present sabotage
- # pickling, since it won't work anyway.
- # if new class implements its own __reduce_ex__, do not sabotage
- if classdict.get('__reduce_ex__') is None:
+ # If a custom type is mixed into the Enum, and it does not know how
+ # to pickle itself, pickle.dumps will succeed but pickle.loads will
+ # fail. Rather than have the error show up later and possibly far
+ # from the source, sabotage the pickle protocol for this class so
+ # that pickle.dumps also fails.
+ #
+ # However, if the new class implements its own __reduce_ex__, do not
+ # sabotage -- it's on them to make sure it works correctly. We use
+ # __reduce_ex__ instead of any of the others as it is preferred by
+ # pickle over __reduce__, and it handles all pickle protocols.
+ if '__reduce_ex__' not in classdict:
if member_type is not object:
methods = ('__getnewargs_ex__', '__getnewargs__',
'__reduce_ex__', '__reduce__')
- if not any(map(member_type.__dict__.get, methods)):
+ if not any(m in member_type.__dict__ for m in methods):
_make_class_unpicklable(enum_class)
# instantiate them, checking for duplicates as we go
to an enumeration member (i.e. Color(3)) and for the functional API
(i.e. Color = Enum('Color', names='red green blue')).
- When used for the functional API: `module`, if set, will be stored in
- the new class' __module__ attribute; `qualname`, if set, will be stored
- in the new class' __qualname__ attribute; `type`, if set, will be mixed
- in as the first base class.
+ When used for the functional API:
- Note: if `module` is not set this routine will attempt to discover the
- calling module by walking the frame stack; if this is unsuccessful
- the resulting class will not be pickleable.
+ `value` will be the name of the new class.
+
+ `names` should be either a string of white-space/comma delimited names
+ (values will start at 1), or an iterator/mapping of name, value pairs.
+
+ `module` should be set to the module this class is being created in;
+ if it is not set, an attempt to find that module will be made, but if
+ it fails the class will not be picklable.
+
+ `qualname` should be set to the actual location this class can be found
+ at in its module; by default it is set to the global scope. If this is
+ not correct, unpickling will fail in some circumstances.
+
+ `type`, if set, will be mixed in as the first base class.
"""
if names is None: # simple value lookup