By changing one line of AutoNumber:

    def __new__(cls):

to

    def __new__(cls, *args):

Enums derived from AutoNumber can now support constructors that take named arguments; for example:

class Color(AutoNumber):
    def __init__(self, pantone=None):
        self.pantone = pantone or 'unknown'

class Swatch(Color):
    AUBURN = ('3497')
    SEA_GREEN = ('1246')
    BLEACHED_CORAL = () # New color, no Pantone code yet!

Without the change, one gets the error:

TypeError: __new__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

I attach runnable demonstration code.

Just to be clear, the proposed change to the documentation is simply to add ", *args" to the argument list of AutoNumber.__new__.

The only `AutoNumber` in the stdlib is as an example in the docs.  Were you thinking of something else?

That's the one I was thinking of: the example in the docs.

New changeset 5acc1b5f0b62eef3258e4bc31eba3b9c659108c9 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
bpo-37062: Enum: add extended AutoNumber example (GH-22349) (GH-22369)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5acc1b5f0b62eef3258e4bc31eba3b9c659108c9

New changeset 64362c2e435eddc5e84cea313d92bc0b96d227f7 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9':
bpo-37062: Enum: add extended AutoNumber example (GH-22349) (GH-22370)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/64362c2e435eddc5e84cea313d92bc0b96d227f7

Thank you, Reuben!

New changeset e8165e79f57cb3ca60bf031c417f8fd20c99eaa2 by Łukasz Langa (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.9':
bpo-37062: Enum: add extended AutoNumber example (GH-22349) (GH-22370)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e8165e79f57cb3ca60bf031c417f8fd20c99eaa2