Where is the Python Journal?

[chris patti]

William Annis <annis at biostat.wisc.edu> writes:

> chris patti <cpatti at atg.com> writes:
> 
> > poorly understood and badly documented Perl topics) recently wrote
> > a series of articles on 'memoization' - the use of recursion and
> > recursive data structures to implement caching algorithms that save 
> > huge gots of time on repeated computations..
> > 
> > Python needs something similar.
> 
>         I couldn't resist, largely because I thought it was so cute
> when I came up with this after a little thought:
> 
> class memoize:
>     def __init__(self, fn):
>         self.fn = fn
>         self.args = {}
> 
>     def __call__(self, *args):
>         if not self.args.has_key(args):
>             self.args[args] = apply(self.fn, args)
> 
>         return self.args[args]
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     import math
> 
>     msin = memoize(math.sin)
>     print msin(0), msin(math.pi/2), msin(math.pi/4)
>     # Continue abusing to your heart's content...
> 
>         But, I agree about the Python journal idea and I'm also in the
> same boat: getting the Perl Journal despite my apostasy.  I suppose we
> shouldn't whine unless we intend to write articles, too. :)

I'm willing, just not qualified :|

I don't personally think there's anything wrong with humbly stating
"I think this thing is needed" it's different from saying "PYthon
Sucks! It doesn't have xx" by a mile :)

Thanks for the memoization snippet, interesting stuff.

-Chris

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