bpo-42385: [Enum] add `_generate_next_value_` to StrEnum (GH-23735)
The default for auto() is to return an integer, which doesn't work for `StrEnum`. The new `_generate_next_value_` for `StrEnum` returns the member name, lower cased.
diff --git a/Lib/enum.py b/Lib/enum.py
index 74318c3..ed0c9ce 100644
--- a/Lib/enum.py
+++ b/Lib/enum.py
@@ -826,6 +826,12 @@ def __new__(cls, *values):
__str__ = str.__str__
+ def _generate_next_value_(name, start, count, last_values):
+ """
+ Return the lower-cased version of the member name.
+ """
+ return name.lower()
+
def _reduce_ex_by_name(self, proto):
return self.name