[issue35040] [functools] provide an async-compatible version of functools.lru_cache

Liran Nuna added the comment: > A coroutine detection is a relatively slow check. > I don't think we need to do it in `functools.lru_cache`. Wouldn't a coroutine check only happen during decoration time? To successfully solve this easily and efficiently, we only really need to wrap the corout

[issue35040] [functools] provide an async-compatible version of functools.lru_cache

Brett Cannon added the comment: I was just saying that this is an enhancement request, no judgment about whether we want to solve the enhancement request. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue35040] [functools] provide an async-compatible version of functools.lru_cache

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Brett please elaborate. Do you want to incorporate async_lru library into CPython Core? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue35040] [functools] provide an async-compatible version of functools.lru_cache

Brett Cannon added the comment: Making this a feature request. -- nosy: +brett.cannon title: functools.lru_cache does not work with coroutines -> [functools] provide an async-compatible version of functools.lru_cache type: -> enhancement versions: -Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7