Singleton Pattern in Python

I was looking for a smooth way to create singletons in python. Here is a metaclass solution that seems to work:

class Singleton(type):
    def __init__(cls,name,bases,dic):
        super(Singleton,cls).__init__(name,bases,dic)
        cls.instance=None
    def __call__(cls,*args,**kw):
        if cls.instance is None:
            cls.instance=super(Singleton,cls).__call__(*args,**kw)
        return cls.instance

class Singleton(type):

def __init__(cls,name,bases,dic):

super(Singleton,cls).__init__(name,bases,dic)

cls.instance=None

def __call__(cls,*args,**kw):

if cls.instance is None:

cls.instance=super(Singleton,cls).__call__(*args,**kw)

return cls.instance

This was originally posted by Michele Simionato as a comment on a python singleton recipe on http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/102187

You use it like this:

class A( object ):
  __metaclass__ = Singleton
  # here goes the rest of you class definiton ..

class A( object ):

__metaclass__ = Singleton

# here goes the rest of you class definiton ..

But you knew that anyway, didn’t you?

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