From 500bf7710351818219d3ba440e649de2376c502f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rapptz <rapptz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:52:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document and export MISSING sentinel

---
 discord/utils.py | 3 +++
 docs/api.rst     | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/discord/utils.py b/discord/utils.py
index a3997930c..661442395 100644
--- a/discord/utils.py
+++ b/discord/utils.py
@@ -88,12 +88,15 @@ __all__ = (
     'escape_mentions',
     'as_chunks',
     'format_dt',
+    'MISSING',
 )
 
 DISCORD_EPOCH = 1420070400000
 
 
 class _MissingSentinel:
+    __slots__ = ()
+
     def __eq__(self, other):
         return False
 
diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
index d92ed6b0c..23732c05e 100644
--- a/docs/api.rst
+++ b/docs/api.rst
@@ -1311,6 +1311,12 @@ Utility Functions
 
 .. autofunction:: discord.utils.as_chunks
 
+.. data:: MISSING
+
+    A type safe sentinel used in the library to represent something as missing. Used to distinguish from ``None`` values.
+
+    .. versionadded:: 2.0
+
 .. _discord-api-enums:
 
 Enumerations