Unfortunately subclassing int is actually used https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#enum.IntEnum https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#enum.IntEnum

Unfortunately subclassing int is actually used https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#enum.IntEnum https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#enum.IntEnum and worse Python's int is arbitrary precision so you couldn't compile it to a fixed size.