singleton objects with decorators

[James Stroud]

Other than using modules, I thought @classmethod took care of this kind of 
need:

class SingleThing:
  some_values = {"fanciness":0}
  def __init__(self):
    raise Exception, "not enough preceding stars to be fancy enough"
  @classmethod
  def why_so_fancy(self):
    print "why make every thing so fancy?"

I call this pattern:

"Using a Class to Be Something Single Because It Already Is Single"

or "uactbssbiais", for short.

James

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