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[Python-Dev] redefining is

[Python-Dev] redefining is [Python-Dev] redefining isBarry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Mar 18 10:50:11 EST 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:23, Jewett, Jim J wrote:

> There is an idiom (I've seen it more in Lisp than in python) 
> of creating a fresh object to act as a sentinel.

A very common use case in Python is where None is a valid value in a
dictionary:

missing = object()

if d.get('somekey', missing) is missing:
   # it ain't there

It even reads well!

-Barry



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