Complete Guide to Caching in Python

How does caching work, and ways to cache your functions

Kay Jan Wong
Towards Data Science
7 min readDec 1, 2023

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Photo by Nana Smirnova on Unsplash
Photo by Nana Smirnova on Unsplash

When repeated function calls are made with the same argument, this causes the computation to be repeated. Memoization is useful in such scenarios where the results of function calls can be ‘saved’ for future use. This results in time savings and code optimization as code becomes less computationally expensive…

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