newseater wrote: > 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)
You want a classmethod, not a staticmethod. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
