Robert Kern wrote: > newseater wrote: > > Hello. I need to be able to control how objects are created. Sometimes > > when creating an object, i want to reuse another object instead. I've > > searched for factory method implementations and singleton > > implementations. They were too much of a hack! > > > > My first attempt of doing this was to play around with the __new__() > > method. But i didn't quite succed. Then i came up with making a static > > method which can create my instances or re-use other instances. > > However, the below code I cannot get to work :( > > > > class Creator > > def createInstance(cls, *args, **kwargs): > > anewinstance = cls.__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) > > anewinstance.__init__(*args, **kwargs) > > > > return anewinstance > > createInstance = staticmethod(createInstance) > > You want a classmethod, not a staticmethod.
why do i want that? how should the code look like? currently the objects fail to get initialized etc... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
