Well done Victor!
This stuff is way over my head, but rest assured that humble Python
programmers like me appreciate all the effort put in from guys like you
into improving Python.
Rob Cliffe
On 01/06/2021 23:14, Victor Stinner wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 6:40 PM Victor Stinner wrote:
In
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 6:40 PM Victor Stinner wrote:
> In the 3.10 branch, it became really hard to merge PRs because the
> following ssl crashs on Windows:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue44252
Update on this bug which blocked the Python 3.10 beta 2 release. It's
now fully fixed!
It was a simpl
After fighting with some release blockers, implementing a bunch of GC
traversal functions, and fixing some pending reference leaks, we finally
have Python 3.10.0 beta 2 ready for you! Thanks to everyone that helped to
unblock the release!
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100b2/
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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:09 PM Eric Nieuwland
wrote:
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>
> To add to the suggestions already given in this thread I dug into code I
> wrote some time ago. Offered as an inspiration.
>
> === missing.py ===
>
> from typing import Any
>
> def MISSING(klass: Any) -> Any: """ create a sentinel to in
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:25 AM Pascal Chambon wrote:
>
> Hello, and thanks for the PEP,
>
> I feel like the 3-lines declaration of a new sentinel would discourage a
> bit its adoption compared to just "sentinel = object()"
I now tend to agree. The new version of the draft PEP proposes a
simpler
Thanks for this, Luciano!
My main issue with using class objects is that such use of them would be
unusual and potentially confusing. I think that is important in general,
and doubly so for something I suggest adding to the stdlib.
Additionally, I very much would like for each sentinel object to
Following the continued discussion, I'm currently in favor of a simple
interface using a factory function, i.e. NotGiven = sentinel('NotGiven').
I've created a new GitHub repo with a reference implementation. It also
includes a second version of the draft PEP, addresses some of the
additional poin
