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Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?)

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?)
Date 2015-03-01 19:00 +1300
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yves@zioup.com wrote:
> Thanks. I hadn't realise "singleton" meant a class built such that it could
> not be instanciated more than once,

It doesn't have to be, it could just be a class that you
refrain from instantiating more than once.

But as Michael Torrie said, it's rare to need to to that
in Python. Most of the time you're better off using a
module.

-- 
Greg

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suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) yves@zioup.com - 2015-02-28 16:12 -0700
  Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-28 19:19 -0700
    Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) yves@zioup.com - 2015-02-28 21:11 -0700
      Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-28 22:14 -0700
  Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-01 04:45 +0100
    Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) yves@zioup.com - 2015-02-28 21:29 -0700
      Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-28 22:05 -0700
        Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-02 02:55 +1100
        Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 11:19 +0100
          Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 11:31 +0100
          Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 08:59 -0700
          Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 09:51 -0700
      Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-01 19:00 +1300
    Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-02 02:04 +1100
      Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-01 19:20 +0100
  Re: suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-02-28 22:23 -0800

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