Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > Roy Smith wrote: > > It looks to me like he's trying to implement a classic Gang of Four > > singleton pattern. > > Which I've never really seen the point of in Python, or any other > language for that matter. Just create one instance of the class during > initialisation, put it in a global somewhere, and use it thereafter.
Make that “somewhere” a module namespace, and you effectively have a Singleton for all practical purposes. So yes, I see the point of it; but we already have it built in :-) -- \ “To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, | `\ and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.” | _o__) —Bertrand Russell | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
