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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2010-09-04 22:46:06 (GMT)
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@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
results, the positional and keyword arguments to the function must be
hashable.
- The wrapped function is instrumented with two attributes, :attr:`hits`
- and :attr:`misses` which count the number of successful or unsuccessful
+ The wrapped function is instrumented with two attributes, :attr:`cache_hits`
+ and :attr:`cache_misses` which count the number of successful or unsuccessful
cache lookups. These statistics are helpful for tuning the *maxsize*
parameter and for measuring the cache's effectiveness.
- The wrapped function also has a :attr:`clear` attribute which can be
+ The wrapped function also has a :attr:`cache_clear` attribute which can be
called (with no arguments) to clear the cache.
The original underlying function is accessible through the