On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Michel Desmoulin
<desmoulinmic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead, I think it's a good example of were 'lazy' could help. You
> can't get simpler than:
>
> conf.get('setting_name', lazy load_from_db('setting_name'))
>
Alternatively, you could define 'conf' as a subclass of dict with a
__missing__ method:
class Config(dict):
def __missing__(self, key):
self[key] = load_from_db(key)
return self[key]
conf = Config()
Then it becomes even simpler AND less redundant:
conf['setting_name']
ChrisA
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