C#/Java style Enum with names in Python 2.7+

enums.py

from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

class BaseEnum(object):
	__metaclass__ = ABCMeta

	def __init__(self):

		self._names = dict()
		self._names_reversed = dict()

		self.init_enum()

	def get_name(self, id):
		name = self._names.get(id, None)
		return name


	def get_id(self, name):

		id = self._names_reversed.get(name, None)
		return id

	def define(self, id, name):
		self._names[id] = name
		self._names_reversed[name] = id

		return id

	@abstractmethod
	def init_enum(self):
		pass


class StateEnum(BaseEnum):
	def init_enum(self):
		self.unknown = self.define(0, 'Unknown')
		self.known = self.define(1, 'Known')


class TypeEnum(BaseEnum):
	def init_enum(self):
		self.car = self.define(0, 'Car')
		self.plane = self.define(1, 'Plane')

State = StateEnum()
Type = TypeEnum()

test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from enums import State, Type

print State.unknown
print State.get_id(State.get_name(State.unknown))

print Type.car
print State.get_name(Type.car)