Michael Foord added the comment: I'm not sure to what extent mock documentation should explain Python semantics. The docs *do* make clear that sentinel is useful for where you want to test (compare) objects by *identity*. Problems with copying and pickling them come from the fact that those operations don't preserve *identity*, which is a basic facet of *Python* and not down to mock/sentinel.
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