We don’t use Python native enums

A key line seems to be buried in the "Summary" at the end of the post: "Python native enums are great for what they were designed to do, but..." Barring tricks I'm unaware of, enums in other popular languages, such as Go and TypeScript, don't support the author's more complex usage either—probably by design.

Out of curiosity, are there languages for which the enum implementation supports and encourages encoding complex data like this?

Yeah...those are all not the use cases that Enums were intended/designed for.

Juse use Python's `dataclass` or similar (`pydantic` is great) and just build the custom data types that you need.

Part of the reason why Enums weren’t originally added to the stdlib was because if you get ten developers in a room there will be eleven conflicting expectations from an Enum class.

Personally I’ve never needed to use the Enum class, ever, in the last five years of Python development. It takes barely any time to implement a custom replacement if you need one, but for 99% of my use cases a dictionary or tuple has been enough.

A very odd construct. Coming from Java, a big disappointment, Python enums, pretty much useless. To those who say "just roll your own", sure, but why not make the existing one actually usable?

Enums are implemented in a weird way in Python, not as part of the language but as a class that modifies itself. That said, this article is not what I expected.