Sorry about my detour into the rejected idea of a factory function.
But how about this class-based API?
class NotGiven(Sentinel):
pass
Now I can use NotGiven as the sentinel, and its default repr is <NotGiven>.
Behind the scenes we can have a SentinelMeta metaclass with all the
magic that could be required--including the default __repr__ method.
Cheers,
Luciano
> >
> > (Note: This link will break once the temporary branch is deleted.)
> >
> > I wrote it to summarize the discussions, organize my thoughts and
> > explore the options. I stopped working on it late at night and sent a
> > link to a few people to get some opinions. I didn’t intend to make it
> > public yet, but it was noticed and replied to on the
> > discuss.python.org thread where I put up the poll [1], so the cat is
> > out of the proverbial bag now…
> >
> > Luciano, your wish is granted! ;)
> > - Tal Einat
> >
> > [1] https://discuss.python.org/t/sentinel-values-in-the-stdlib/8810/
>
>
>
> --
> Luciano Ramalho
> | Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015)
> | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do
> | Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks
> | Twitter: @ramalhoorg
--
Luciano Ramalho
| Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015)
| http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do
| Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks
| Twitter: @ramalhoorg
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