On 3/22/2010 11:44 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

<snip>

Another (better IMHO) solution is to use a plain property, and store the
computed value as an implementation attribute :

@property
def foo(self):
cached = self.__dict__.get('_foo_cache')
if cached is None:
self._foo_cache = cached = self._some_time_consuming_operation()
return cached


There's no need to access __dict__ directly. I believe this is equivalent (and clearer):

 @property
 def foo(self):
     try:
         cached = self._foo_cache
     except AttributeError:
         self._foo_cache = cached = self._time_consuming_op()
     return cached

-John
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