singleton ... again

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:04:32 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> > If you really want to make sure nobody creates another instance by
> > accident, delete the class out of the namespace after instantiating
> > it.
>
> That does not work. It is trivial to get the type from an instance [by
> calling ‘type(foo)’].

Right, but surely you don't think people would do that “by accident”,
which is what Gregory was addressing.

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