Happy new year folks! Just wanted to share this little snippet to use Python enums in solid configs and hear your thoughts on it. Is this something you already have a dedicated function for (couldn’t find anything in the docs) or something that conceptually doesn’t make sense?

def as_dagster_enum(e: enum.EnumMeta):
    return Enum(e.__name__, [EnumValue(v.name, python_value=v) for v in e])

You can then use it in your solid config like so

class Strategy(enum.Enum):
    SOMETHING = enum.auto()
    SOMETHING_ELSE = enum.auto()


@solid(
    config={"strategy": Field(as_dagster_enum(Strategy)),
    …
)
…

Ya this looks good - consider sending a PR to add it as a static method on

Enum

,

from_py_enum

or something

Done :) please let me know if anything needs improving