On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 11:57:11AM -0800, Neil Girdhar wrote: > Has anyone done a survey of, say, the cpython library codebase to see what > proportion of arguments lists would significantly benefit from this PEP > given as a proportion of the total codebase? In all the Python I've ever > written or seen, I can only thing of one example of a custom sentinel ever > being needed.
It is not just the *custom sentinels* that could be replaced with late-bound defaults, but the good ol' `if param is None` sentinel as well. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OM723LFGG4KGJMRG7NHRVHCABO2QWTJN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
