James T. Dennis wrote:
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> while still guaranteeing a singleton. What I'd like to do is have
> some sort of __instantiate__() member that would allow a class to
> return a custom object reference.
It's there, in Python 2.2, and it's called __new__. See
http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html#__new__ for
an example of using it to implement Singleton.
Alex