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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 01:06:46 +0200
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On 03.09.2015 00:25, tdev@freenet.de wrote:
> It is the good idea of Python about modules which are singletons
> and therefore have already its state (so in some way they are already somehow
> like classes - except the bad annoying thing with the "global" statement).

So, what you really want is a better language support for singletons?