DeprecationWarning: Sentinel is not a public part of the traitlets API (from traittypes)

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We started seeing a DeprecationWarning downstream in Jdaviz (spacetelescope/jdaviz#2456).

bqplot/__init__.py:64: in <module>
    from .figure import *  # noqa
bqplot/figure.py:36: in <module>
    from .interacts import Interaction
bqplot/interacts.py:41: in <module>
    from traittypes import Array
traittypes/__init__.py:1: in <module>
    from .traittypes import *
traittypes/traittypes.py:20: in <module>
    Empty = Sentinel('Empty', 'traittypes',
traitlets/__init__.py:24: in __init__
    warn(
traitlets/utils/warnings.py:11: in warn
    return warnings.warn(msg, category=category, stacklevel=stacklevel, source=source)
E   DeprecationWarning:
E               Sentinel is not a public part of the traitlets API.
E               It was published by mistake, and may be removed in the future.

If no one maintains traittypes now, you should move away from it. Related issues:

• DeprecationWarning: Sentinel is not a public part of the traitlets API. It was published by mistake, and may be removed in the future. jupyter-widgets/traittypes#47
• Is this repository still maintained? jupyter-widgets/traittypes#48