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Added rationale for defaulting to 1 in the functional API.

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@ -335,6 +335,10 @@ assignment to :class:`Animal` is equivalent to::
... cat = 3
... dog = 4
The reason for defaulting to ``1`` as the starting number and not ``0`` is
that ``0`` is ``False`` in a boolean sense, but enum members all evaluate
to ``True``.
Pickling enums created with the functional API can be tricky as frame stack
implementation details are used to try and figure out which module the
enumeration is being created in (e.g. it will fail if you use a utility