Re: [pygame] main game object using singleton/global/static?

[Michael George <mdgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Jo wrote:
> Either singletons or globals would work fine.  Singletons are more 
> useful when you see a need to enforce a rule that the class must be 
> instanced only once, but if you are the only developer and can trust 
> yourself not to do something silly, globals work just as well.  I tend 
> to use singletons because I avoid globals as a matter of principle 
> (except in prototype programs).
In python, there's no difference because there's no real notion of 
"private".  In fact the module system provides a nice way of ensuring 
that things are only instantiated once - initialize them right in the 
module.  The import statement will only run the initialization the first 
time that way.

In the end I think it's a matter of preference.

--Mike