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Commit a77d968b authored by Paul McCarthy's avatar Paul McCarthy
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Removed some lies from function documentation.

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......@@ -28,17 +28,10 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# TODO Make this a class, and add
# a "clearCache" method to it.
def memoize(func):
"""Memoize the given function by the value of the input arguments, allowing
the caller to specify which positional arguments (by index) and keyword
arguments (by name) are used for the comparison.
"""Memoize the given function by the value of the input arguments.
If no positional or keyword arguments are specified, the function is
memoized on all arguments. Note that the arguments used for memoization
must be hashable, as they are used as keys in a dictionary.
:arg args: A list of positional argument indices.
:arg kwargs: A list of keyword argument names.
Note that the arguments used for memoization must be hashable, as they are
used as keys in a dictionary.
"""
cache = {}
......@@ -62,6 +55,8 @@ def memoize(func):
try:
result = cache[key]
log.debug('Retrieved from cache[{}]: {}'.format(key, result))
except KeyError:
result = func(*a, **kwa)
......@@ -111,8 +106,8 @@ def memoizeMD5(func):
def skipUnchanged(func):
"""This decorator is intended for use with *setter* functions - a function
which accepts a name and a value, and is intended to set some named
attribute to the given value.
which accepts a name and a value, and is intended to set some named
attribute to the given value.
This decorator keeps a cache of name-value pairs. When the decorator is
called with a specific name and value, the cache is checked and, if the
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