Why use enums?

This should be on r/learnpython This is just reiterating in a convoluted way what the official documentation already states. In fact, it manages to answer the question in this post's title explicitly at the very beginning: *They are most useful when you have a variable that can take one of a limited selection of values.* Source: [https://docs.python.org/3/howto/enum.html](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/enum.html) The world of tech blogs is over saturated with this kind of articles that really bring nothing new to the table and simply misdirect people from the primary sources of information.