On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:21:53 +1200
Gregory Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:
> My idiom for fetching from a cache looks like this:
>
> def get_from_cache(x):
> y = cache.get(x)
> if not y:
> y = compute_from(x)
> cache[x] = y
> return y
I prefer not to create and destroy objects needlessly.
def get_from_cache(x):
if not x in cache:
cache[x] = compute_from(x)
return cache[x]
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