singletons

[Craig Allen]

On Jul 17, 2:15 am, Uwe Schmitt <rocksportroc... at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On 17 Jul., 00:20, Craig Allen <callen... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have several classes in our system which need to act like
> > singletons, they are libraries of data classifications, and other such
> > libraries of configurations for the system which need to be global.
> > ...
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> > Is it pythonic?
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> My approach in this situation is to use the Borg pattern instead
> of singeltons. This is really pythonic, very simple and usefull.
>
> Look athttp://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66531
> The german wikipedia shows another solution using metaclasse:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_(Entwurfsmuster)#Das_Borg-Pattern
>
> Greetings, Uwe

thanks uwe, doing some searching I ran into the borg pattern this
morning. Definitely relevant.

Thanks again and all for the feedback, I feel much reassured about the
options when this sort of thing is required.