Python Flask RestPlus Enum Type

Question

Am using python 3.4. I have created an enum type as shown below:

import enum
class EnumGender(enum.Enum):
    blank = ' '
    female = 'Female'
    male = 'Male'
    other = 'Other'

my question is how do i assign it to flask-restplus field as the only examples i can see are:

fields.String(description='The object type', enum=['A', 'B'])

Answer 1

You can assign the member names to it:

fields.String(description='The object type', enum=EnumGender._member_names_)

Answer 2

I have opted for this approach:

fields.String(attribute=lambda x: str(EnumGender(x.FieldContainingEnum).name))

(Source: How to get back name of the enum element in python?)