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Singleton example in Python
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Example of Singleton design pattern
# Copyright (C) 2011 Radek Pazdera
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
class Singleton:
# Here will be the instance stored.
__instance = None
@staticmethod
def getInstance():
""" Static access method. """
if Singleton.__instance == None:
Singleton()
return Singleton.__instance
def __init__(self):
""" Virtually private constructor. """
if Singleton.__instance != None:
raise Exception("This class is a singleton!")
else:
Singleton.__instance = self
# A little testing
s = Singleton() # Ok
#Singleton() # will raise exception
print s
s = Singleton.getInstance()
print s
s = Singleton.getInstance()
print s # will print the same instance as before
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ghost commented Jun 9, 2019

== and != None should really be is and is not, but otherwise this is quite good.

@Sonic0
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Sonic0 commented Sep 25, 2019

Thanks!!

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jnalley commented Feb 1, 2020

I made a slight variation of this that uses the functools @lru_cache decorator instead of a class property to hold the instance.

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