How to memoize functions?

[Aahz]

In article <3efb54b3$1_2 at corp-news.newsgroups.com>,
Chris Reedy  <creedy at mitretek.org> wrote:
>
>The obvious way to memoize a function would be to keep a dictionary with 
>keys being tuples (or maybe dictionaries) of previous argument lists 
>and values being the results of the previous computations.

Here's an idea: make the argument to your function a single class
instance.  Use a simple LRU cache where you store a timestamp in your
dict along with the result.  (The dict key is the class instance.)
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