God I need to read documentation, all of it, including not-important sounding first sentences.

Previously: 220810-1201 Huggingface utils ExplicitEnum python bits showing me how to do str enuenums

.. you can set using both.

enum — Support for enumerations — Python 3.11.0 documentation:

• use call syntax to return members by value
• use index syntax to return members by name

class MyEnum(str,Enum):
    IG2 = "val1"
    IG3 = "val2"
MyEnum("val1") == MyEnum["IG3"]