Singleton in Python Cookbook

[Alex Popescu]

Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this moment
I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of type

(I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about copyrights).

bests,
../alex
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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Alex Popescu schrieb:

Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this moment
I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of type

(I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about copyrights).

AFAIK the cookbook is completely found online at ASPN. So no sweat
publishing it here.
And regarding the problem: is it possible that you forgot to subclass
SingleSpam from object?

Diez

[Alex Popescu]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <de***@nospam.web.dewrote in
news:5g*************@mid.uni-berlin.de:

Alex Popescu schrieb:

>Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this
moment I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working
resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of
type

(I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about
copyrights).

AFAIK the cookbook is completely found online at ASPN. So no sweat
publishing it here.
And regarding the problem: is it possible that you forgot to subclass
SingleSpam from object?

Diez

The exact code:
class Singleton(object):
""" A Pythonic Singleton """
def _ _new_ _(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if '_inst' not in vars(cls):
cls._inst = type._ _new_ _(cls, *args, **kwargs)
return cls._inst

if _ _name_ _ == '_ _main_ _':
class SingleSpam(Singleton):
def _ _init_ _(self, s): self.s = s
def _ _str_ _(self): return self.s
s1 = SingleSpam('spam')
print id(s1), s1.spam( )
s2 = SingleSpam('eggs')
print id(s2), s2.spam( )

../alex
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[Alex Popescu]

Alex Popescu <no*****************@gmail.comwrote in
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"Diez B. Roggisch" <de***@nospam.web.dewrote in
news:5g*************@mid.uni-berlin.de:

>Alex Popescu schrieb:

>>Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this
moment I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working
resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of
type

(I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about
copyrights).

AFAIK the cookbook is completely found online at ASPN. So no sweat
publishing it here.
And regarding the problem: is it possible that you forgot to subclass
SingleSpam from object?

Diez

The exact code:
class Singleton(object):
""" A Pythonic Singleton """
def _ _new_ _(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if '_inst' not in vars(cls):
cls._inst = type._ _new_ _(cls, *args, **kwargs)
return cls._inst

if _ _name_ _ == '_ _main_ _':
class SingleSpam(Singleton):
def _ _init_ _(self, s): self.s = s
def _ _str_ _(self): return self.s
s1 = SingleSpam('spam')
print id(s1), s1.spam( )
s2 = SingleSpam('eggs')
print id(s2), s2.spam( )

./alex
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I got it working in 2 ways:

class Singleton(object):
""" A Pythonic Singleton """
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if '_singletoninstance' not in vars(cls):
#variant 1: cls._singletoninstance = object.__new__(cls, *args,
**kwargs)
#variant 2: cls._singletoninstance = super(type, cls).__new__(cls,
*args, **kwargs)
return cls._singletoninstance

Both of these seem to work.

../alex
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[John J. Lee]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <de***@nospam.web.dewrites:
[...]

AFAIK the cookbook is completely found online at ASPN. So no sweat
publishing it here.

[...]

No: the book-form cookbook is edited, and has extra text.

I believe the recipes are under a BSD-style license, though.
John

[John J. Lee]

Alex Popescu <no*****************@gmail.comwrites:

Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this moment
I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of type

Haven't looked at that recipe, but take a look at this related one:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo...n/Recipe/66531

John

[Steve Holden]

Alex Popescu wrote:

Alex Popescu <no*****************@gmail.comwrote in
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>"Diez B. Roggisch" <de***@nospam.web.dewrote in
news:5g*************@mid.uni-berlin.de:

>>Alex Popescu schrieb:
Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this
moment I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working
resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of
type

(I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about
copyrights).
AFAIK the cookbook is completely found online at ASPN. So no sweat
publishing it here.
And regarding the problem: is it possible that you forgot to subclass
SingleSpam from object?

Diez

The exact code:
class Singleton(object):
""" A Pythonic Singleton """
def _ _new_ _(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if '_inst' not in vars(cls):
cls._inst = type._ _new_ _(cls, *args, **kwargs)
return cls._inst

if _ _name_ _ == '_ _main_ _':
class SingleSpam(Singleton):
def _ _init_ _(self, s): self.s = s
def _ _str_ _(self): return self.s
s1 = SingleSpam('spam')
print id(s1), s1.spam( )
s2 = SingleSpam('eggs')
print id(s2), s2.spam( )

./alex
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I got it working in 2 ways:

class Singleton(object):
""" A Pythonic Singleton """
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if '_singletoninstance' not in vars(cls):
#variant 1: cls._singletoninstance = object.__new__(cls, *args,
**kwargs)
#variant 2: cls._singletoninstance = super(type, cls).__new__(cls,
*args, **kwargs)
return cls._singletoninstance

Both of these seem to work.

If, that is, "work" means "Raise an AttributeError due to the missing
spam() method". This appears to fix that problem:

class Singleton(object):
""" A Pythonic Singleton """
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if '_inst' not in vars(cls):
cls._inst = object.__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
return cls._inst

if __name__ == '__main__':
class SingleSpam(Singleton):
def __init__(self, s): self.s = s
def __str__(self): return self.s
s1 = SingleSpam('spam')
print id(s1), s1
s2 = SingleSpam('eggs')
print id(s2), s2
print str(s1)

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Steve
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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Alex Popescu a écrit :

Hi all!

I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this moment
I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working resulting in:

TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of type

(I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about copyrights).

I don't have the book, so if you don't post the code, I just give up
trying to guess what the problem can be.

[Alex Popescu]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bd*****************@free.quelquepart.frwrote in
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Alex Popescu a écrit :

>
[snip...]
I don't have the book, so if you don't post the code, I just give up
trying to guess what the problem can be.

I've sent the original code and 2 different variants a long time ago.

../alex
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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Alex Popescu a écrit :

Bruno Desthuilliers <bd*****************@free.quelquepart.frwrote in
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>Alex Popescu a écrit :

>[snip...]
I don't have the book, so if you don't post the code, I just give up
trying to guess what the problem can be.

I've sent the original code and 2 different variants a long time ago.

You had not sent anything when I answered. But it seems that the machine
I answered with is a bit out of time !-)

./alex
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