From 4c042a36ce26d6920abdc7e5a54f80d288b9cc80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 03:39:43 -0700 Subject: [3.11] gh-107619: Extend functools LRU cache docs with generators and async functions (GH-107934) (#108162) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit gh-107619: Extend functools LRU cache docs with generators and async functions (GH-107934) (cherry picked from commit 1a713eac47b26899044752f02cbfcb4d628dda2a) Co-authored-by: Hadházy Tamás <85063808+Hels15@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya --- Doc/library/functools.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functools.rst b/Doc/library/functools.rst index 62fcdde..9dadbb6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functools.rst @@ -211,8 +211,9 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions: In general, the LRU cache should only be used when you want to reuse previously computed values. Accordingly, it doesn't make sense to cache - functions with side-effects, functions that need to create distinct mutable - objects on each call, or impure functions such as time() or random(). + functions with side-effects, functions that need to create + distinct mutable objects on each call (such as generators and async functions), + or impure functions such as time() or random(). Example of an LRU cache for static web content:: -- cgit v0.12