Singleton implementation problems

[Matthew Fitzgibbons]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> writes:
> 
>> The problem is the structure of your program. The myset module is
>> imported twice by Python, once as "myset" and once as "__main__".
> 
> Yes, this is the problem. Each module imports the other.
> 
>> Therefore you get two distinct MySet classes, and consequently two
>> distinct MySet.__instance class attributes.
> 
> Are you sure? This goes against my understanding: that 'import foo'
> will not re-import a module that's already been imported, but will
> instead simply return the existing module.
> 
> So, I think if one evaluated 'myset is __main__', you'd find they are
> exactly the same module under different names; and therefore that
> there is only *one* instance of 'MySet', again under two names.
> 

You can see that they're distinct by checking the addresses (the 
instances in the OP also have different addresses). Besides, __main__ 
isn't imported normally.

-Matt