Lazy Attribute

[Andriy Kornatskyy]

Ian,

Thank you for mentioning about this research, really appreciate that.

Thanks.

Andriy Kornatskyy


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> From: ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:46:19 -0700
> Subject: Re: Lazy Attribute
> To: python-list at python.org
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Andriy Kornatskyy
> <andriy.kornatskyy at live.com> wrote:
> >
> > A lazy attribute is an attribute that is calculated on demand and only once.
> >
> > The post below shows how you can use lazy attribute in your Python class:
> >
> > http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/11/python-lazy-attribute.html
> >
> > Comments or suggestions are welcome.
>
> I should add that I like the approach you're taking here. Usually
> when I want a lazy property I just make an ordinary property of a
> memoized function call:
>
> def memoize(func):
> cache = {}
> @functools.wraps(func)
> def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
> kwset = frozenset(kwargs.items())
> try:
> return cache[args, kwset]
> except KeyError:
> result = cache[args, kwset] = func(*args, **kwargs)
> return result
> return wrapper
>
> class Foo:
> def __init__(self):
> self.times_called = 0
>
> @property
> @memoize # Alternatively, use functools.lru_cache
> def forty_two(self):
> self.times_called += 1
> return 6 * 9
>
>
> >>> foo = Foo()
> >>> foo.times_called
> 0
> >>> foo.forty_two
> 54
> >>> foo.times_called
> 1
> >>> foo.forty_two
> 54
> >>> foo.times_called
> 1
>
>
> Although you don't go into it in the blog entry, what I like about
> your approach of replacing the descriptor with an attribute is that,
> in addition to being faster, it makes it easy to force the object to
> lazily reevaluate the attribute, just by deleting it. Using the
> Person example from your blog post:
>
> >>> p = Person('John', 'Smith')
> >>> p.display_name
> 'John Smith'
> >>> p.display_name
> 'John Smith'
> >>> p.calls_count
> 1
> >>> p.first_name = 'Eliza'
> >>> del p.display_name
> >>> p.display_name
> 'Eliza Smith'
> >>> p.calls_count
> 2
>
> Although in general it's probably better to use some form of reactive
> programming for that.
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