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title	date	draft	tags
Quick Python: Cached Property	2020-04-18T18:29:21-04:00	false	Python

If you have a property in an object that only needs to be computed once, consider using cached_property to store the result and serve for future function calls.

import functools
class Number:
    def __init__(self, n):
        self.n = n
    @functools.cached_property
    def is_prime(self):
    	return all(self.n % i for i in range(2, self.n))

Let's test it with the Mersenne prime 524287.

n = Number(524287)
n.is_prime

After maybe 1-2 seconds of thinking you should get True.

Run it again and the result will be instantaneous!