Sentinel

This is a small class that improves upon using a plain object as a sentinel for function arguments when None is a valid parameter and can’t be used as the default. The improvements vs. a plain object are:

• Better __str__ and __repr__ for better messages in logs and stacktraces. Instead of something like '<object object at 0x7ffb4d50e830>' you get '<not_set>'

• Sentinels are picklable

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_value Inspired by: https://pypi.org/project/sentinels/

collections_extended.sentinel