How do I implement a Java-like enumeration in Python?

Question

what is the python version of saying this.. this is in java

public static enum Operations {Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, None};

I am converting an entire program to python, i just cant figure out this part

heres my whole class

    import java.util.*;

public class Expression
{
    public static enum Operations {Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, None};
    int a;
    int b;
    Expression.Operations op;
    public Expression()
    {
        a = 0;
        b = 0;
        op = Expression.Operations.None;
    }
    public Expression(int value1, int value2, Expression.Operations operation)
    {
        a = value1;
        b = value2;
        op = operation;
    }

    public boolean parseString(String expressionString, Map<Character, Integer> vars)
    {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(expressionString);

        //Attempt to read the first value.
        if (scanner.hasNextInt())
            a = scanner.nextInt();
        else if (scanner.hasNext())
        {
            String var = scanner.next();
            //Ensure that the variable identifier is a single alphabetical character in length.
            if (!var.matches("[A-Z]{1}"))
            {
                return false;
            }
            if (vars.containsKey(var.charAt(0)))
                a = vars.get(var.charAt(0));
            else
            {
                System.err.println("ERROR: Uninitialized variable.");
                return false;
            }
        }
        else return false;

        //If more tokens exist, attempt to read the operator.
        if (scanner.hasNext())
        {
            String operator = scanner.next();
            if (operator.equals("+"))
                op = Expression.Operations.Add;
            else if (operator.equals("-"))
                op = Expression.Operations.Subtract;
            else if (operator.equals("*"))
                op = Expression.Operations.Multiply;
            else if (operator.equals("/"))
                op = Expression.Operations.Divide;
            else
                return false;

            //Attempt to read the second value.
            if (scanner.hasNextInt())
                b = scanner.nextInt();
            else if (scanner.hasNext())
            {
                String var = scanner.next();
                //Ensure that the variable identifier is a single alphabetical character in length.
                if (!var.matches("[A-Z]{1}"))
                {
                    return false;
                }
                b = vars.get(var.charAt(0));
            }
            else return false;
        }

        return true;
    }
    public int evaluate()
    {
        int value = 0;
        if (op == Expression.Operations.Add)
            value = a + b;
        if (op == Expression.Operations.Subtract)
            value = a - b;
        if (op == Expression.Operations.Multiply)
            value = a * b;
        if (op == Expression.Operations.Divide)
            value = a / b;
        if (op == Expression.Operations.None)
            value = a;
        return value;
    }
}

Answer 1

Python doesn't have an enum class. It just does it using normal integers. The easiest way to make a template part of a class is to do the following:

class Operation:
    ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, NONE = range(5)

Which will assign add to 0 and none to 4. This is the most clean way of doing it (and it will guarantee that you don't have any enums in this sequence that are the same number and that you haven't missed assigning something to one of the numbers.