Static caching property

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> Right, but _private refers to an api call that is expensive and may not even be accessed,
> so while I may new up three instances of Test across a, b and c, if none of those end up
> accessing var x, it shouldn't get fetched. Without some deferred execution, if the value
> of _private is a callable whose return value is what I am interested in, it gets invoked the
> moment the class is compiled.
>
> In the non static sense this is trivial to accomplish with the descriptor protocol, I am just not
> clear for the static sense.

One solution is to use descriptor protocol on the class, which means
using a metaclass. I'm not sure it's the best option, but it is an
option.

ChrisA