Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:04:32 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > If you really want to make sure nobody creates another instance by > > accident, delete the class out of the namespace after instantiating > > it. > > That does not work. It is trivial to get the type from an instance [by > calling ‘type(foo)’].
Right, but surely you don't think people would do that “by accident”, which is what Gregory was addressing. -- \ Hercules Grytpype-Thynne: “Well, Neddie, I'm going to be | `\ frank.” Ned Seagoon: “Right, I'll be Tom.” Count Moriarty: | _o__) “I'll be Gladys.” *slap* —The Goon Show, _World War I_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list