As an option, it can be handy in some cases (less in Python than C, but still somewhat); requiring that you write them out for all enums, however, is somewhat a

As an option, it can be handy in some cases (less in Python than C, but still somewhat); requiring that you write them out for all enums, however, is somewhat annoying. C itself gets this right: you can write '= 1' to choose a value or leave it out to assign one automatically, and in either case you can convert to an integer (actually, they're integers in the first place, but that's C).