It seems difficult to find any information about enum-flag usage and workflow. I'm familiar with bitflags and related operations, but the blender/python specifics are fun to figure out.

Is there any clever (or possibly obvious in my case) mechanism to convert enum flags into a string? It is primarily for debugging, but user friendly would be a plus.

The way enum properties are defined in Blender makes me wonder if the flags are not already defined as a string in some way.

It seems difficult to find any information about enum-flag usage and workflow. I'm familiar with bitflags and related operations, but the blender/python specifics are fun to figure out.

Is there any clever (or possibly obvious in my case) mechanism to convert enum flags into a string? It is primarily for debugging, but user friendly would be a plus.

The way enum properties are defined in Blender makes me wonder if the flags are not already defined as a string in some way.

Edit: For example, my flags are defined like this:

FBXG_Mode=[
            # mode flags
            ('GA', "Asset", "...", 1),
            ('LP', "Low", "...", 2),
            ('HP', "High", "...", 4),
            
            # system flags
            ('EXCLUDE',"","",8),
            ('RENAMED',"","",16),
            ('DELETE',"","",32),
            ]

And it seems we can check for flags using strings like this..

if 'GA' in MyFlags:

By the way, how exactly does this work? Does the environment process this correctly because it associates the MyFlags variable with the FBXG_Mode list?

I'm very new to Python, so I have a couple questions if anyone knows the answers:

1. What tells the environment the attribute order of my FBXG_Mode list? Eg, how does it know that I placed the flag names into the second column/entry? Is this just hard-coded somewhere in the Blender or Python environment? Where would I find documentation about this? I'm not sure what this is called.

2. How do I access an element of FBXG_Mode in a way that allows me to access the name, description, value, etc? Would it be FBXG_Mode[0][1]? I'm looking for something more like FBXG_Mode['GA'].Description, or at least FBXG_Mode['GA'][2]. I would like to avoid the hard-coded indices if possible.

3. Is it possible to access the strings and/or properties of the FBXG_Mode list using only the MyFlagsvariable after it is assigned or associated with it? Does a flags variable have any type of association after it is assigned, or is the association only available during the assignment?

4. Is there any quick/automatic way to extract the toggled flags of a variable in string form, such as for printing text? This seems like something a generic function could be written to do, so I'm wondering if one already exists? Especially since Blender can generate UI controls basically the same way.

Thanks for any help!