> What I *really* want is to keep a collection of all the Spam instances, > and if i try to create a new Spam instance with the same contructor > parameters, then return the existing Spam instance. I thought new-style > classes would do it: <snip>
> So what is the best/preferred way to do this? Use the BORG-pattern. See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66531 Together with your caching, that should do the trick. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
