Get Value Of An Enum

Environment

• Pythonnet version: latest
• Python version: 3.9.4
• Operating System: Windows
• .NET Runtime:

Details

• Describe what you were trying to get done.

I would like to have the ability to extract the value of a .Net Enum via python. One can do that using MyEnum.value__, however it seems logical that you should do it using int(MyEnum).

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example this will help us understand the issue.

import clr

clr.AddReference("System.Windows.Forms")

import System.Windows.Forms as WinForms

enum_value = WinForms.Keys.Control
print(f"{enum_value=}")
print(f"{enum_value.value__=}")

That prints:

enum_value=<System.Windows.Forms.Keys object at 0x000001C053E07580>
enum_value.value__=131072

• If there was a crash, please include the traceback here.

No crash.

[saroad2]

So if I understand you correctly, we all agree that adding a default __int__ method for all C# enums is a wise idea?

I would have implemented this ability myself, but I have zero knowledge in C#. Let me know if I can help you somehow make this ability happen.

[lostmsu]

If I remember correctly, we removed the code, that converted any enum value to an integer implicitly when passed to Python. You could never previously get raw enum value in Python, it always just saw integers. So the corresponding type never had __int__ implementation.