[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Singleton decorator (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Apr 8 17:29:27 EDT 2004


(Still catching up. I guess no help with the substance of the PEP will be forthcoming, so I'll try to get to things as I can.)

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Ping> But i don't think this is a good way to write a singleton, because
Ping> then the user of the class has to get instances by saying
Ping> "MyClass" instead of "MyClass()".  Better would be:

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Ping> I respectfully suggest that the PEP use the latter implementation
Ping> in its singleton example instead.

Done.

Skip



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