String-based enum in Python

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It seems that it is enough to inherit from str class at the same time as Enum:

from enum import Enum

class MyEnum(str, Enum):
    state1 = 'state1'
    state2 = 'state2'

The tricky part is that the order of classes in the inheritance chain is important as this:

class MyEnum(Enum, str):
    state1 = 'state1'
    state2 = 'state2'

throws:

TypeError: new enumerations should be created as `EnumName([mixin_type, ...] [data_type,] enum_type)`

With the correct class the following operations on MyEnum are fine:

print('This is the state value: ' + state)

As a side note, it seems that the special inheritance trick is not needed for formatted strings which work even for Enum inheritance only:

msg = f'This is the state value: {state}'  # works without inheriting from str

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