Get enumeration definition from shared library

Question

I use ctypes to access a shared library written in C. The C source of the shared library contains an enumeration of type

enum {
   invalid = 0,
   type1   = 1,
   type2   = 2
} type_enum;

From the Python side, I intended to simply define integer constants for various enumeration values, for example:

INVALID = 0
TYPE1 = 1
TYPE2 = 2  

And then use these numeric "constants" in the Python code calling the C functions. This seems to work fine, but I would strongly prefer to get the numerical values ​​for the enums directly from the shared library (introspection?); however, using, for example, nm in a shared library, it does not seem to contain the characters "invalid", "type1" or "type2". So my question is:

1. - " ", ?
2. - Python/ctypes?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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