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Author ncoghlan
Recipients barry, ethan.furman, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2013-05-13.14:24:41
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On 14 May 2013 00:06, "Antoine Pitrou" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
>
> > >I agree with Nick here, there's no reason to auto-number constants
> > >in
> > >Python. This is not C :-)
> >
> > Why should they be strings?   Why not object()?
>
> Because strings are readable, I'd say.

Yep. Since we no longer have a compelling reason for it to be anything
else, it may as well be the human readable string.
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