Caching with decorators
saved = {}
def web_lookup(url):
if url in saved:
return saverd[url]
page = urrlib.urlopen(url).read()
saved[url] = page
return page
# NEEDS TO BE A PURE FUNCTION, NO SIDE EFFECTS LIKE PRINT
# PYTHON 3
from functools import lru_cache
@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
def web_lookup(url):
return urrlib.urlopen(url).read()
# PYTHON 2
@cache
def web_lookup(url):
return urrlib.urlopen(url).read()
from functools import wraps
def cache(func):
saved = {}
@wraps(func)
def newfunc(*args):
if args in saved:
return saved[args]
result = func(*args)
saved[args] = result
return result
return newfunc