Sorry Mariano, I misspelled your name in my last post :)
To give you a better example of what you might want to do here is a more
advanced module that makes a static class and better resembles the
singleton pattern:
class Counter(object):
instance = None
@classmethod
def get(cls):
if cls.instance == None:
cls.instance = Counter()
return cls.instance
def __init__(self, message='Hello World!'):
self.message = message
self.count = 0
def get_count(self):
self.count += 1
return self.count
def get_message(self):
return self.message
Then your controller would look something like this now:
from mymodule import Counter
counter = Counter.get()
count = counter.get_count()
return dict(count=count)
By calling Counter.get() instead of Counter(), we ensure that there is only
ever once instance of the Counter object, and that the object will last for
the lifetime of the web2py instance.
