On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 02:18:14PM +0000, Tin Tvrtković wrote:
> self.__dict__ = {'a': a, 'b': b, 'c': c}
>
> i.e. to replace the instance dictionary altogether. On PyPy, their core
> devs inform me this is a bad idea because the instance dictionary is
> special there, so we won't be doing this on PyPy.
>
> But is it safe to do on CPython?
I don't know if it's safe, but replacing __init__ is certainly an old
and famous idiom:
https://code.activestate.com/recipes/66531-singleton-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-singleton-the-bo/
--
Steve
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