Django TextChoices cannot utilize `is` or `==` isn't explicitly stated

[Casper Weiss Bang]

i was reading about the "new" enums feature here:

​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/models/fields/#enumeration-types

And wanted to utilize it. However i tried to use is to check for equality rather than in. That made it impossible to utilize before i realized that the returned type from the CharField is, naturally, a char, and that i could check for equality with in: self.year_in_school in self.YearInSchool.JUNIOR

This probably isn't the most beautiful thing though, and it wasn't really stated that this is the defacto way to check for equality (lest i use self.year_in_school in self.YearInSchool.JUNIOR.value.

It would be quite nice if the self.year_in_school type actually was of type ENUM, or at least had documented how you could check for equality with them.

The current solution seems, sadly, hacky at best.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

== works properly for me, e.g.

class Event(models.TextChoices):
    C = 'Carnival!'
    F = 'Festival!'

>>> p1 = Post.objects.create(title=Event.C)
>>> p1.title == Event.C
True

I wouldn't expect that is will work here.

The current solution seems, sadly, hacky at best.

Please try to be more polite and appreciate the effort of contributors.