__new__() does not return anything, on singletong pattern

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/11/2015 04:33 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:

> The following code runs just fine. But PyCharm flags the assignment
> with a warning telling me that generate() does not return anything and
> the I lose code completion on the mmap variable.
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     mmap = Map.generate(12, 24)
>     print(mmap.width, mmap.height, mmap.author)
> 
> I need to understand if this is just a glitch of the IDE or I am doing
> indeed something that is frowned upon and ended up caught in a
> misleading static analysis warning.

You're code is good.  The only question is if you /really/ need a singleton -- and only you can answer that (although
plenty of folks will tell you you don't ;) .

--
~Ethan~

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