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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?)
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:23:02 -0800
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yves@zioup.com writes:
> Are there better ways to address this? Any suggestion on this style?

I guess I don't completely understand the question.  But one way to do a
singleton in python is put the initialization code into a separate
module.  Then the first time you import the module, the code runs, but
it doesn't re-run on subsequent imports.