On 13 February 2014 20:00, Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > Make that “somewhere” a module namespace, and you effectively have a > > Singleton for all practical purposes. So yes, I see the point of it; but > > we already have it built in :-) > > There is a use case for a singleton class: when creating the singleton > object takes considerable resources and you don't need it always in your > program. > Then have that resource in its own module, and import that module only when needed e.g. inside a function. Python already has the machinery - no need to reinvent the wheel. Tim Delaney
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