On 2006-01-31, bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See other answers in this thread for how to solve the UnboundLocalError > problem. > > Now about your *real* problem - which is nothing new -, you may want to > read about some known solutions: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_pattern > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_initialization > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization >
No, I'm already quite certain that this is a Singleton--pythonically a module-level instance of Something--I'm not thinking of it as "lazy instantiated" 'cuz it's initialized at startup, but I suppose it qualifies. I considered using a Borg for this, but discarded the idea as "too complicated for my needs--this will be easier to implement . . . " Which I suppose it would be if I knew how correctly to use the "global" keyword. I don't need to restrict the actual class to One Instance so much as I'd prefer that to be the default behavior. I can't think of a reason why I'd want to subclass this, so I can't say whether it makes sense to Borg/Highlander/Singleton it or not. For now, I'll Do The Simplest Thing That Might Work and figure YAGNI (or IAGNI, I guess). Thanks for the help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list