Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Enum gained an __init__ method in 3.11 which just passes:

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
        pass

That was added in #30582. One person questioned it at the time, but there was no response. The best I can figure is that it was related to special handling of __init__ in EnumType.__dir__, which you can see here:

That special handling of __init__ was removed by #30677 prior to 3.11 being released, which leaves no plausible function to Enum.__init__ that I can see. It muddies introspection of the type, so I think we should remove it if that's really the case.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-128080: remove unnecessary __init__ method from Enum #128081