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Request for package: micropython-enum

openby desowinopened 2018-04-04updated 2025-03-05
enhancement

I would like micropython to have support for IntEnum class. Base Enum would be nice to have, although just bare IntEnum would be enough in my opinion.

11 comments
stlehmann · 2018-04-04

Enums are especially useful when it comes to static type-checking. So it would be great if the implementation of this enum type allowed type-checking via mypy. This means all values need to be an instance of the defined enum-type.

>>> class MyEnum(enum.IntEnum):
...    A = 1
...    B = 2

>>> isinstance(MyEnum.A, MyEnum)
True
lypwig · 2022-02-20

I'm also interested by enum in MicroPython.

In the meantime, I found here this workaround:

def enum(**enums: int):
    return type('Enum', (), enums)

Number = enum(ONE=1, TWO=2, THREE=3)

numbers = (Number.ONE, Number.TWO)
matejcik · 2022-02-20

for type-checking, I'm using the following trick:

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from enum import IntEnum
else:
    IntEnum = object

class Fruit(IntEnum):
    APPLE = 1
    PEAR = 2

def print_fruit(fruit: Fruit):
    if fruit == Fruit.APPLE:
         print("apple")

print_fruit(Fruit.APPLE)
brotherdust · 2022-10-14

This workaround is excellent! I combined it with const for my purposes:

OP_RW = enum(
        READ = const(0b1),
        WRITE = const(0b1)
    )
esologic · 2022-12-11

+1 for a real implementation of this

i33l · 2023-05-26
class State(int):
    pass

State.OFF = State(0)
State.ON = State(1)

But when have been imported getting "Unresolved attribute reference" warning.

andrewleech · 2023-05-26

+1 for a real implementation of this

The cpython implementation is surprisingly very complicated and relies heavily on metaclasses which aren't supported in micropython:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/f585ed19ad00f78ed99ba44be5e333c056076160/Lib/enum.py#L1051

As such any micropython implementation will need to be completely custom really, at which point we need to clearly define which aspects of Enum we want to support first, before figuring out how to implement them!

andrewleech · 2023-05-26
class State(int):
    pass

State.OFF = State(0)
State.ON = State(1)

But when have been imported getting "Unresolved attribute reference" warning.

There are a number of limitations when subclassing builtins in micropython, especially int because behind the scenes it's particularly optimised. Eg. https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/genrst/builtin_types.html#no-int-conversion-for-int-derived-types-available

bredbord · 2024-03-07

+1 for an implementation of this as well.

CANDIDATE · ISSUE

MPRemote: Create separated source package or repository

closedby petrkropened 2025-11-12updated 2025-11-13
enhancement

Description

Because Arch linux maintainers complains about pip-way of package installation in PKGBUILD and they want to build it more Pythonic/Arch linux way it would be nice to have mpremote sources somehow separated from main tree, so PKGBUILD will NOT download 120MB just because of 240kB tool in order to build.

Maybe some release workfow can just separately pack mpremote and put it beside of whole source here at github releases.

Check
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Python_package_guidelines#Installation_methods
and it related issue
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpremote#comment-1047502

Code Size

It is not micropython related, but mpremote is part of this repository, unfortunately.

Implementation

I intend to implement this feature and would submit a Pull Request if desirable

Code of Conduct

Yes, I agree

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