SASanFranManDan·Dec 14, 2016
How they use the singleton is strange also.
https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine/blob/master/ivote-serve...
> Election().count_questions()
> Election().is_hes()
> for el in Election().get_questions()
> Election().is_voters_list_disabled()
Election is a singleton so they keep reinstantiating it every time they want to use it instead of just doing
> election = Election()
at the module level and having a more idiomatic singleton (module variable are singletons). But a singleton design probably isn't the best approach.
The singleton example isn't that bad of code since it assumes that one server will run one election which is a valid assumption, but reading through this code makes me weary about e-voting. I think this proves that OpenSource doesn't always mean good code. There is little incentive for people outside of Estonia to contribu
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te to the project.