Re: Coming In Python 3.15: Sentinel Values

Chris Angelico via Python-list <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 17:15:54 +1000
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On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 13:35, Tim Daneliuk via Python-list
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Forgive me, but this smells of Feeping Creaturism to solve a not very important question
> at the expense crufting up the language and decreasing clarity.
>
> I have seen this happen with every single language I ever used except perhaps,
> assembler, C, and Forth.
>
> Oh well, there's an opportunity here for someone to excise the noisy PEPs and
> create Python Lite.
>

If you feel so strongly about it, YOU create it. Otherwise you're just
whining at nothing.

Meanwhile, I'm quite happy to use t-strings, the improved error
messages, and some of the other changes from the latest version.

ChrisA