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[Python-Dev] capability-mediated modules (was: python-dev Summary for 2003-03-01 through 2003-03-15)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:16:13 +1200 (NZST) 
Samuele Pedroni <pedronis@bluewin.ch>:

> The problem is that normally modules are uniquely globally identified
> singletons, but the very notion of parametrization implies instantiation and
> that breaks the singleton part.

Python already has things you can instantiate -- they're
called classes!

Seems to me if you want instantiation, you should be using
a class, not a module.

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