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Learn the drawbacks of using the Singleton design pattern, one of the most widely used design patterns, and the alternatives to avoid its potential pitfalls Although design patterns are solutions to ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.