| cachetools |
| ======================================================================== |
| |
| This module provides various memoizing collections and decorators, |
| including a variant of the Python 3 Standard Library |
| ``functools.lru_cache`` function decorator. |
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| .. code-block:: pycon |
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| >>> from cachetools import LRUCache |
| >>> cache = LRUCache(maxsize=2) |
| >>> cache.update([('first', 1), ('second', 2)]) |
| >>> cache |
| LRUCache([('second', 2), ('first', 1)], maxsize=2, currsize=2) |
| >>> cache['third'] = 3 |
| >>> cache |
| LRUCache([('second', 2), ('third', 3)], maxsize=2, currsize=2) |
| >>> cache['second'] |
| 2 |
| >>> cache['fourth'] = 4 |
| LRUCache([('second', 2), ('fourth', 4)], maxsize=2, currsize=2) |
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| For the purpose of this module, a *cache* is a mutable_ mapping_ of a |
| fixed maximum *size*. When the cache is full, i.e. the current size |
| of the cache exceeds its maximum size, the cache must choose which |
| item(s) to discard based on a suitable `cache algorithm`_. |
| |
| In general, a cache's size is the sum of the size of its items. If |
| the size of each items is ``1``, a cache's size is equal to the number |
| of its items, i.e. ``len()``. An items's size may also be a property |
| or function of its value, e.g. the result of ``sys.getsizeof()``, or |
| ``len()`` for string and sequence values. |
| |
| This module provides various cache implementations based on different |
| cache algorithms, as well as decorators for easily memoizing function |
| and method calls. |
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| Installation |
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| Install cachetools using pip:: |
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| pip install cachetools |
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| Project Resources |
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| - `Documentation`_ |
| - `Issue Tracker`_ |
| - `Source Code`_ |
| - `Change Log`_ |
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| License |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| Copyright (c) 2014 Thomas Kemmer. |
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| Licensed under the `MIT License`_. |
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| .. _functools.lru_cache: http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache |
| .. _mutable: http://docs.python.org/dev/glossary.html#term-mutable |
| .. _mapping: http://docs.python.org/dev/glossary.html#term-mapping |
| .. _cache algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_algorithms |
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| .. _Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/cachetools/ |
| .. _Source Code: https://github.com/tkem/cachetools/ |
| .. _Issue Tracker: https://github.com/tkem/cachetools/issues/ |
| .. _Change Log: http://raw.github.com/tkem/cachetools/master/Changes |
| .. _MIT License: http://raw.github.com/tkem/cachetools/master/LICENSE |