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Learning Python Design Patterns - Second Edition - Second Edition
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Learning Python Design Patterns - Second Edition - Second Edition

by Chetan Giridhar, Gennadiy Zlobin
February 2016
Beginner to intermediate
164 pages
3h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Drawbacks of the Singleton pattern

While Singletons are used in multiple places to good effect, there can be a few gotchas with this pattern. As Singletons have a global point of access, the following issues can occur:

  • Global variables can be changed by mistake at one place and, as the developer may think that they have remained unchanged, the variables get used elsewhere in the application.
  • Multiple references may get created to the same object. As Singleton creates only one object, multiple references can get created at this point to the same object.
  • All classes that are dependent on global variables get tightly coupled as a change to the global data by one class can inadvertently impact the other class.

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