Bob Gailer wrote:
I neglected to show the function call:Andre Engels wrote:Is it possible to define a class in such a way, that if twice an object is made with the same initialization parameters, the same object is returned in both cases?Use a "factory" function, and store a dictionary of instances as a class property:class myObj(object): instances = {} def __init__(self,a): # the rest of your code def makemyObj(a): if a in myObj.instances: return myObj.instances[a] else: new_instance = myObj(a) myObj.instances[a] = new_instance return new_instance a = makemyObj("a") b = makemyObj("b") c = makemyObj("a") a and c will point to the same object b will be a different object |
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