conditional computation

[robert]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Thursday 26/10/2006 16:30, robert wrote:
> 
>> I want to use a computation cache scheme like
>>
>>
>>         o = CACHECOMPUTE  complex-key-expr  expensive-calc-expr
>>
>>
>> frequently and elegantly without writing complex-key-expr or 
>> expensive-calc-expr twice.
>> So its ugly:
>>
>>         _=complex-key-expr; o=cache.get(_) or 
>> cache.setdefault(_,expensive-calc-expr)
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> The memoize pattern can help; in 
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary you can see an 
> implementation using decorators.
> 


thanks, as such it will not help hooking single line expressions, but it helped me remember the lambda ! :shame: :


class MemoCache(dict): # cache expensive Objects during a session (memory only)
    def memo(self, k, f):
        try: return self[k]
        except IndexError:
            return self.setdefault(k, f())
cache=MemoCache()
...

o = cache.memo( complex-key-expr, lambda: expensive-calc-expr )



Thats pythonic now.

-robert