On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Roger <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a Java programmer just starting with Python, this answer surprised me. I
> would've been googling for the Python equivalent of the Singleton pattern.
> I guess it's going to take longer than I thought to get my head around the
> differences.

A Singleton is a way to allow only a single instance of a class within
a single running program (process). The OP was asking how to ensure he
only created one process running a program. That is a very different
problem.

And yeah, singletons are evil and usually better served by modules in Python.

Kent
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