I would think that would be a great name, it’s more explicit and fits more in with its siblings “lru_cache” and “cached_property”.

Not to imply that there is a consensus to move forward, I would be interested in knowing what the next steps would be if there was. Would this require a PEP to be submitted? Or is it similar enough to existing functionality that it might not require one?

On 27 Apr 2020, at 19:37, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:26:53 -0700
Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

Or are you saying that once could be interpreted to mean I cannot do that 2nd def?  

That is what I was saying -- that `once`, all by itself, could mean multiple things.

That's a good point.  A more explicit spelling would be `@call_once`,
what do you think?

(that's also the C++ spelling, incidentally, but I suspect most
beginners won't care about that ;-))

Regards

Antoine.

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