[Tutor] singleton pattern

[D-Man]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:17:44PM -0400, Benoit Dupire wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
| > The thing to remember about Python is that unlike Java you are not
| > forced to put everything inside a class.  Somethings don't really
| > belong inside a class.  Static methods are one of those things.  They
| > belong in a module instead.  There is no way to have static methods in
| > a class in python, but you have modules instead.
| 
| yep.. i think it's hard for me to get used to the idea, which means (IMHO)
| combining 2 paradigms..
| I think we already discussed that, not so long ago, in this mailing-list uh
| ? :o) !!
| One day... i'll get used to this idea ...

Yes, we discussed whether putting everything in a class was more (or
less) OO than allowing somethings to exist at module level.  :-).
 
| Thank your for all the replies....

You're welcome.

-D