How can I construct an enum.Enum from a dictionary of values?

Question

I'd like to generate some types at runtime from a config file. For simplity, let's assume I already have the data loaded as a python dictionary:

color_values = dict(RED = 1, YELLOW = 2, GREEN = 3)

How can I transform this into the type (using enum)

class Color(enum.Enum):
    RED = 1
    YELLOW = 2
    GREEN = 3

The following doesn't work

def make_enum(name, values):
    return type(name, (enum.Enum,), values)

>>> Color = make_enum('Color', color_values)
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute '_member_names'

Answer 1

Color = Enum('Color', color_values)

Tada! There's a provided API for that. You can also give it an iterable of name-value pairs, or an iterable of just names (in which case the values will be auto-filled starting from 1), or a whitespace- or comma-separated string of names (which will also auto-fill values).