>
>
> It's very clean, it makes a lot of logical sense, and it feels a bit
> more Pythonic (to me, at least) than the current methods and the other
> proposals.
>
> +1 to this over anything else that's been suggested.
Its pretty orthogonal to most of the other suggestions.
However, I think using a descriptor it is possible to make the "object
manager" work in the way that people seem to want - allowing access via
the class, but not via the instance ( seperation of table wide and
instance-specific functionality.)
class ObjectManager(object):
def __get__(self, instance, type=None):
if instance != None:
raise AttributeError, "Can not access object manager via an instance"
return self
