bpo-30616: Functional API of enum allows to create empty enums.

Author: corona10

Lib/enum.py

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ def _create_(cls, class_name, names=None, *, module=None, qualname=None, type=No
         # special processing needed for names?
         if isinstance(names, str):
             names = names.replace(',', ' ').split()
-        if isinstance(names, (tuple, list)) and isinstance(names[0], str):
+        if isinstance(names, (tuple, list)) and names and isinstance(names[0], str):
             original_names, names = names, []
             last_values = []
             for count, name in enumerate(original_names):

Lib/test/test_enum.py

@@ -2291,6 +2291,26 @@ def test_programatic_function_from_dict(self):
             self.assertIs(type(e), Perm)
 
 
+    def test_programatic_function_from_empty_list(self):
+        Perm = enum.IntFlag('Perm', [])
+        lst = list(Perm)
+        self.assertEqual(len(lst), len(Perm))
+        self.assertEqual(len(Perm), 0, Perm)
+        Thing = enum.Enum('Thing', [])
+        lst = list(Thing)
+        self.assertEqual(len(lst), len(Thing))
+        self.assertEqual(len(Thing), 0, Thing)
+
+
+    def test_programatic_function_from_empty_tuple(self):
+        Perm = enum.IntFlag('Perm', ())
+        lst = list(Perm)
+        self.assertEqual(len(lst), len(Perm))
+        self.assertEqual(len(Perm), 0, Perm)
+        Thing = enum.Enum('Thing', ())
+        self.assertEqual(len(lst), len(Thing))
+        self.assertEqual(len(Thing), 0, Thing)
+
     def test_containment(self):
         Perm = self.Perm
         R, W, X = Perm

Misc/NEWS

@@ -368,6 +368,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- bpo-30616: Functional API of enum allows to create empty enums.
+  Patched by Dong-hee Na
+
 - bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module.
   They now always return bytes.