traitlets/sentinel.py

"""Sentinel class for constants with useful reprs"""

# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.

class Sentinel(object):

    def __init__(self, name, module, docstring=None):
        self.name = name
        self.module = module
        if docstring:
            self.__doc__ = docstring


    def __repr__(self):
        return str(self.module)+'.'+self.name