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enum.EnumMeta renaming #93064
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#22392 renamed the enum.EnumMeta metaclass to enum.EnumType. This originally went into 3.10 and was reverted (#27010), but remained on 3.11.
The renaming caused some problems for me with introspection code that looks at the name of classes to find their stubs (quora/pyanalyze#537).
I don't see anything wrong with the old name (EnumMeta). Could we return to the EnumMeta name to avoid gratuitously making upgrades harder?
cc @ethanfurman for enum
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ethanfurman commented on May 23, 2022
My apologies for the extra work. I renamed it (and kept the old name as an alias) because I personally found it confusing when working with enums to have, for example, SelectionEnum be of type EnumMeta and not EnumType.
The change is not gratuitous.