On 08/02/2010 11:46 AM, Majdi Sawalha wrote: > I am developing a morphological analyzer that depends on a large lexicon. i > construct a Lexicon class that reades a text file and construct a dictionary > of > the lexicon entries. > the other class will use the lexicon class to chech if the word is found in > the > lexicon. the problem that this takes long time as each time an object of that > class created, then it needs to call the lexicon many times. then when the > lexicon is called it re-construct the lexicon again. is there any way to > construct the lexicon one time during the execution of the program? and then > the > other modules will search the already constructed lexicon.
Can you not create a module that, upon import, initializes this lexicon as a module attribute? Modules are by definition singleton objects, which is the pattern that you probably need. Any other module could import this module and get the already-created lexicon object. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
