On Nov 24, 7:42 pm, Steven D'Aprano > > To the OP: yes, your use case is quite valid; the keyword you are > > looking for is "memoize". You can find around a dozen of recipes in the > > Cookbook and posted in this list; here's one starting point: > >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413717. > > This has nothing, absolutely NOTHING, to do with memoization. Memoization > trades off memory for time, allowing slow functions to return results > faster at the cost of using more memory. The OP wants to save memory, not > use more of it.
If you bothered to click on that link you would learn that memoization can be used to save space too and matches OP's case exactly; even the identity tests work. Self-importance is bad enough by itself, even without the ignorance, but you seem to do great in both. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
