Did you mean like keeping a hidden attribute on the object with the result?
Well, that'd require manually keeping track of these attributes for each
method I'm caching. I do that sometimes, but it's verbose.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:26 AM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 08:42, Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's similar to my use case. Big mutable object (right now a state in
> a multi-agent simulation) with lots of methods that I want to cache.
>
> Thanks all for the explanation of use cases.
>
> In this specific example, if you're caching methods where self is the
> "big object", wouldn't a per-class cache be a better approach? Then
> the cache is automatically dropped when the object is.
>
> Paul
>
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