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Author benhoyt
Recipients Alex Gordon, andrewnester, benhoyt, berker.peksag, bob.ippolito, brett.cannon, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2017-03-14.17:06:54
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Agreed. Seems much the same as other argument constants,
like pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL for the "protocol" argument. These are not
changing the API, just adding a helper constant to avoid the magic values.

-Ben

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Brett Cannon <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Brett Cannon added the comment:
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> I agree with David that I don't see how adding a constant to the module is
> really a complication of an API.
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