It's quite common in python to manage/encapsulate a global by wrapping it in a module, so arguably a singleton is the same thing, just encapsulating in a class/

It's quite common in python to manage/encapsulate a global by wrapping it in a module, so arguably a singleton is the same thing, just encapsulating in a class/class-instance instead? but even if the prog-lang had specific support for safe(r) globals, it would still just be a global at the lower (higher?) level.