Hello. I need to be able to control how objects are created. Sometimes when creating an object, i want to reuse another object instead. I've searched for factory method implementations and singleton implementations. They were too much of a hack!
My first attempt of doing this was to play around with the __new__() method. But i didn't quite succed. Then i came up with making a static method which can create my instances or re-use other instances. However, the below code I cannot get to work :( class Creator def createInstance(cls, *args, **kwargs): anewinstance = cls.__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) anewinstance.__init__(*args, **kwargs) return anewinstance createInstance = staticmethod(createInstance) can anyone help?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list