James Mitchelhill wrote: > Sorry for the clunky subject line - I have a feeling that not knowing > the proper terms for this is part of my problem. > > I'm trying to write a class that analyses some data. I only want it to > do as much work as necessary, so it saves method results to a > dictionary, like so:
The term for this is 'memoization'. You can find several recipes for this in the online Python Cookbook; for example, see http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466320 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
