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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser |
| Date | 2012-12-08 20:23 +0000 |
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On 08/12/2012 17:48, Josh English wrote:
> On Saturday, December 8, 2012 9:40:07 AM UTC-8, Peter Otten wrote:
>>
>> Two underscores trigger name mangling only in a class, not in a module.
>>
>> Don't try to hide the Options instance:
>>
>> # module config.py
>>
>> import ConfigParser
>>
>> class Options(ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser):
>>
>> ... # as above
>>
>> options = Options()
>>
>> Then use it elsewhere:
>>
>> from config import options
>>
>> options.set("mysection", "myoption", "myvalue")
>>
>> All but the first import will find the module in the cache (sys.modules) and
>>
>> therefore the same Options instance will be used. Voilà your no-nonsense
>>
>> singleton.
>
>
> Ah. I was over-thinking again. I couldn't find an example of this anywhere, and when I saw the tirades against Singletons they mentioned "use modules" but, well, I haven't had my morning coffee yet. I shouldn't even be trying this sort of thing until then.
>
> Thank you for the simple answer.
>
> Josh
>
For the benefit of the OP and others, if you want to gain more knowledge
about patterns in Python such as the Singleton, I suggest you use your
favourite search engine to find "Alex Martelli Python patterns".
--
Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 09:11 -0800
Re: Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-12-08 18:40 +0100
Re: Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 09:48 -0800
Re: Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-08 20:23 +0000
Re: Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 09:48 -0800
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