Does everyone use #Python’s object() for unique tokens? Like:

no_match = object()val = some_dict.get('key', no_match)if val is not no_match:    do_something()

I don’t know what else object() would be used for (and why they’d keep it).

@2ck I do that sometimes.
It's kind of a historical fact now, I guess? At some point in py2 there wasn't "object" and then there was and you could opt-in to "new-style classes" with `class Foo(object):`. In py3 everything is new-style. IIRC ;)
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@meejah yeah, I mean specifically its use as a way to mint these sort-of do-nothing objects, not just its use as a type