On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:43:06PM +0200, Alex Hall wrote: > It's not clear to me why people prefer an extra function which would be > exactly equivalent to lru_cache in the expected use case (i.e. decorating a > function without arguments). It seems like a good way to cause confusion, > especially for beginners. Based on the Zen, there should be one obvious way > to do it.
Indeed, and if you want to guarantee that a function is executed exactly *once*, then a decorator called *once* is that Obvious Way. How many beginners do you know who even know what a LRU cache is? -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GGKH73DO2KMBV4NFDH64K3O5OP2YHLBH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
