In some typed/compiled languages, a substantial benefit of using enums is that it provides some way to automatically determine if you've handled every eventuali

In some typed/compiled languages, a substantial benefit of using enums is that it provides some way to automatically determine if you've handled every eventuality. That's super not a part of normal Python as you've mentioned. The second part of crimsonalucard1's post was referring to somehow hacking in that type of functionality into Python. I think you could somehow do that with nested context managers - something like: with EnumChecker(e) as checker: with checker(enum_type.A): # do thing with checker(enum_type.B): # do thing ... Where `e` is an instance of `enum_type`, and the inner context managers acting as if/case statements, then you could on any single execution of the code block (so you only need a single test case) ensure that you covered all states.