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diff --git a/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py b/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py
index 79722c0..73c8d4b 100644
--- a/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py
+++ b/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This is used by gapic clients to provide common error mapping, retry, timeout,
pagination, and long-running operations to gRPC methods.
"""
+import enum
import functools
from google.api_core import grpc_helpers
@@ -25,7 +26,18 @@ from google.api_core import timeout
from google.api_core.gapic_v1 import client_info
USE_DEFAULT_METADATA = object()
-DEFAULT = object()
+
+
+class _MethodDefault(enum.Enum):
+ # Uses enum so that pytype/mypy knows that this is the only possible value.
+ # https://stackoverflow.com/a/60605919/101923
+ #
+ # Literal[_DEFAULT_VALUE] is an alternative, but only added in Python 3.8.
+ # https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Literal
+ _DEFAULT_VALUE = object()
+
+
+DEFAULT = _MethodDefault._DEFAULT_VALUE
"""Sentinel value indicating that a retry or timeout argument was unspecified,
so the default should be used."""