Dynamic enum values on nested classes with Python

Question

Consider the following enum class:

from enum import Enum


class Namespace:

    class StockAPI(Enum):
        ITEMS = "{url}/items"
        INVENTORY = "{url}/inventory"

    class CustomerAPI(Enum):
        USERS = "{url}/users"
        PURCHASES = "{url}/purchases"

    def __init__(self, url):
        self.url = url

I am trying to make url a dynamic value for each enum class.

What can I do here so that I can call some enum class in one of the following ways:

• Namespace.StockAPI.ITEMS.value would return http://localhost/items?
• Namespace(url="http://localhost").StockAPI.ITEMS.value would also return http://localhost/items

Is this possible to do without doing variable interpolation each time I access each enum property? Could factory pattern be of any help here?

Answer 1

I did it the following way, while keeping the inner enum classes:

from enum import Enum


class Namespace:

    class StockAPI(Enum):
        ITEMS = "{url}/items"
        INVENTORY = "{url}/inventory"

    class CustomerAPI(Enum):
        USERS = "{url}/users"
        PURCHASES = "{url}/purchases"

    def __init__(self, url: str):
        attrs = (getattr(self, attr) for attr in dir(self))
        enums = (a for a in attrs if isinstance(a, type) and issubclass(a, Enum))
        for enum in enums:
            kv = {e.name: e.value.format(url=url) for e in enum}
            setattr(self, enum.__name__, Enum(enum.__name__, kv))

print(Namespace(url="http://test.com").StockAPI.ITEMS.value)
# http://test.com/items