"Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Ok, so I thought, how about creating a decorator that caches the > function results and retrieves them from cache if possible, otherwise it > calls the function and store the value in the cache for the next invokation. > > [snip]
Cool, you re-invented the memoization pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/search?query=memoize&x=0&y=0§ion=PYTHONCKBK&type=Subsection Yes, it's kinda discouraging that most interesting ideas have already been conceived, implemented and used by others...<wink> George
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