myvar = cache.ram('myvar',lambda:f(),10**10)

where f() is a function that returns the variable.

On Oct 21, 2:43 pm, Mark Larsen <larsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say I need to create a global variable once on application
> start-up.  It would take a few CPU cycles to generate this variable so
> I wouldn't want to re-generate it on each request cycle.  Is there a
> way to do this in web2py?  Should I be using the cache?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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