Ethan Furman added the comment: Yup, just trying to add some explanation on how it currently works.
Drekin, I'm sure you've already figured this out, but for those who may read this in the future: what you need is a helper function: def OptionalEnum(value): "could also be OptionalEnum(enum, value)" try: return SomeEnum(value) # or return enum(value) except ValueError: return value ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19040> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com