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Beyond None: Mastering Sentinel Objects for Cleaner Python Code

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If you’ve ever used None to represent “missing” or “default” values in Python, you’ve likely run into a subtle problem: what if None is a valid input for your function or data structure? For example, a caching function might need to distinguish between a cached None value and the absence of a cached value altogether. Using None for both cases creates ambiguity and bugs that are hard to trace. Read more

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