suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?)

[Paul Rubin]

yves at zioup.com writes:
> Are there better ways to address this? Any suggestion on this style?

I guess I don't completely understand the question.  But one way to do a
singleton in python is put the initialization code into a separate
module.  Then the first time you import the module, the code runs, but
it doesn't re-run on subsequent imports.