[CentralOH] Singleton

[Mark Erbaugh]

Would the following code be appropriate to implement a singleton instance?


class Singleton(object):
	""" class that will have only one instance in the application """

singleton = Singleton()
del Singleton


The single instance of the class would be instantiated the first time the module is imported. It would be impossible for any other code to instantiate another instance.

I had originally thought of a slightly shorter, but less Pythonic version

class singleton(object)
	""" note the non-standard lowercase class name """

singleton = singleton()



Comments are welcome.

Mark