μνήμων

A simple cache interface for Python objects. Abuse it.

There are many other caching libraries but this one is very minimal and it's meant to stay so.

Will add more documentation soon.

Simple usage

from mnemon import mnc

c = mnc()
c[0] = 1
print(c[0])     # returns 1 (obviously)
c.expire(0, 5)  # expires in 5 seconds

del c[0]

Can be used in with. (with mnc() as c: ...). This has no effect on the redis backend.

Decorator usage

from mnemon import mnd as mn

@mn
def f(x):
    return x

Caveats

• Default backend (be param to both mnc and mnd) is redis. If Redis isn't found it will fall back to the file backend.
• The file backend gets cleaned up every time mnc() is called, or on __exit__.
• Caching by default pickles and compresses (zlib) the objects. Initialising mnc or mnc with raw=True bypasses pickling but assumes you're caching strings or bytes. Good to cache HTTP request results, bad for most other cases. Use raw only with strings.
• Compression is currently mandatory.
• For now nothing can be configured at runtime besides constructor parameters.