On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 6:21 AM Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 2:09 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> > Just add a ._uuid attribute and have object equality follow equality of
> that attribute. There's no reason to expose that in the .__repr__, but it
> would be inspectable in concept.
>
> I think it's worth preserving the idiom of comparing sentinels using
> `is`, as we do for `None` and other existing sentinel values. It's
> relatively easy to do, such as by using a single-value Enum or by
> using a class with a custom __new__.
>
This only works if:
a) Unpickling is within a single interpreter session
b) Sentinels are explicitly created in imported modules, not as a runtime,
user-level creation
Maybe there's a way to do it, but how would you handle this situation:
if some_runtime_condition:
my_sentinal = Sentinel(desc="Gosh, I need a sentinel")
# ... code ...
pickle.dump(thing_using_sentinel, fh)
Equality is certainly a lot easier to get than identity here.
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