How does Mr. Martelli's Borg recipe work ?

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.1058930376.7219.python-list at python.org>, Ian Bicking
<ianb at colorstudy.com> writes
>
>class _Something:
>   ...
>
>TheSomething = _Something()
>
>
>Then just never refer to _Something again.  Import TheSomething (calling
>it whatever you want), and use it, not its class.  It's a singleton
>because there's only one of them.  Simplicity!
>
>  Ian
>
....can't one do
class TheSomething:
   ....

TheSomething = TheSomething()

then it's harder to get at the class which presumably is now only
available as TheSomething.__class__
-- 
Robin Becker