Functional Python & the functools Toolkit

functools In Depth

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Bridge: functools Imports and Decorator Labels

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IN THIS LESSON

YOU’RE LEARNING TO

↗use functools.partial to fix arguments and create specialised callables

↗apply lru_cache and cache for memoisation and understand their performance implications

↗use cached_property to defer expensive property computation

↗implement singledispatch for type-based function overloading

↗use functools.wraps to preserve function metadata in decorators

↗use total_ordering to complete comparison operators from two