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How would I constrain a method to only return one of a set of specific values in python?

Is there a pythonic way to constrain the output of a method so that it can only be one of a set? Sort of like typing but for specific values only. I hope you can see what I’m trying to get at with this snippet:

class Rule:
    def evaluate(self, user_id: int) -> {"PASS", "FAIL", "ERROR"}:
        ...

In the above case I would be hoping for evaluate to only return "PASS", "FAIL" or "ERROR"

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>Solution :

In python 3.8 or higher, you can use Literal types:

from typing import Literal

class Rule:
    def evaluate(self, user_id: int) -> Literal["PASS", "FAIL", "ERROR"]:
        ...
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