Help with Singleton SafeConfigParser

[Josh English]

On Saturday, December 8, 2012 9:40:07 AM UTC-8, Peter Otten wrote:
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> Two underscores trigger name mangling only in a class, not in a module. 
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> Don't try to hide the Options instance:
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> # module config.py
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> import ConfigParser
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> class Options(ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser):
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>      ... # as above
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> options = Options()
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> Then use it elsewhere:
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> from config import options
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> options.set("mysection", "myoption", "myvalue")
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> All but the first import will find the module in the cache (sys.modules) and 
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> therefore the same Options instance will be used. Voilà your no-nonsense 
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> singleton.


Ah. I was over-thinking again. I couldn't find an example of this anywhere, and when I saw the tirades against Singletons they mentioned "use modules" but, well, I haven't had my morning coffee yet. I shouldn't even be trying this sort of thing until then.

Thank you for the simple answer.

Josh