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Storing multiple instances on a Singleton?

RefactoringGuru's example Singleton in Python has an _instances dictionary field class Singleton(type): _instances = {} def __call__(cls, *args, **kwargs): if cls not in cls....
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What's wrong with using a Singleton?

I'm working on a Python application in which there are two Singleton classes: App and Configuration. The former seems straight forward, only ever instantiate one App instance; the latter seems ...
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How should I represent an object whose instances share the same set of member function identifiers, but those identifiers specify different behaviors?

I'm attempting to develop an open-source Python module for modeling task networks for discrete event simulation. The most fundamental component is the task object, which includes various data such as ...
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