On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:57:02 PM UTC+2, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > If you want to hide the distinction between using > call syntax and just accessing a global, then > export a function that returns the global instance. > > That function can even lazily create the instance > the first time it's called. That's a pattern that > *is* useful, and I've often used in Python and > other languages. > E.g. > _the_whatsit = None > def get_whatsit(): > if _the_whatsit is None: > _the_whatsit = Whatsit() > return _the_whatsit > Greg
Gregory Ewing and Michael Torrie, yes you are both right, that is how things are done in standard Python library. But i am not restricting myself to that. Thanks /Asaf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
