From 0271e1cef786a41d4bd4885dd2d90fbf75062d11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Meyer Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 16:38:53 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] gh-104112: link from cached_property docs to method-caching FAQ (GH-104113) (cherry picked from commit fa86a77589a06661fcebb806d36f3a7450e2aecf) Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/functools.rst | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functools.rst b/Doc/library/functools.rst index 7438d4cdadc550..62fcddec090419 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functools.rst @@ -102,18 +102,10 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions: ``__slots__`` without including ``__dict__`` as one of the defined slots (as such classes don't provide a ``__dict__`` attribute at all). - If a mutable mapping is not available or if space-efficient key sharing - is desired, an effect similar to :func:`cached_property` can be achieved - by a stacking :func:`property` on top of :func:`cache`:: - - class DataSet: - def __init__(self, sequence_of_numbers): - self._data = sequence_of_numbers - - @property - @cache - def stdev(self): - return statistics.stdev(self._data) + If a mutable mapping is not available or if space-efficient key sharing is + desired, an effect similar to :func:`cached_property` can also be achieved by + stacking :func:`property` on top of :func:`lru_cache`. See + :ref:`faq-cache-method-calls` for more details on how this differs from :func:`cached_property`. .. versionadded:: 3.8