diff --git a/spacy/attrs.pxd b/spacy/attrs.pxd
index a8ee9cac0..74397fa64 100644
--- a/spacy/attrs.pxd
+++ b/spacy/attrs.pxd
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Reserve 64 values for flag features
-cpdef enum attr_id_t:
+cdef enum attr_id_t:
     NULL_ATTR
     IS_ALPHA
     IS_ASCII
diff --git a/spacy/attrs.pyx b/spacy/attrs.pyx
index ba95e1e72..8efd9e189 100644
--- a/spacy/attrs.pyx
+++ b/spacy/attrs.pyx
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ IDS = {
 
 # ATTR IDs, in order of the symbol
 NAMES = [key for key, value in sorted(IDS.items(), key=lambda item: item[1])]
+locals().update(IDS)
 
 
 def intify_attrs(stringy_attrs, strings_map=None, _do_deprecated=False):