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Is that clean and neat, or weird and inscrutable? Will it be clear to /anyone/ reading that code what it's doing?

• o1iver 14y ago
  I agree with your sceptisism. This is misusing a language feature, a better approach is using a decorator.
• tzs 14y ago
  I'm a Python newbie, and that code was immediately clear and obvious to me when I read it. I won't say it would be clear anyone that reads it, because we live in a world where people who claim to be programmers can't do fizz buzz.
  • StavrosK 14y ago
    I'm a Python veteran, and, if you do it like this, I'll shoot you. Add a @memoize decorator and do it there, you need to always be as obvious as possible. Compare: @memoize def fibonacci(n): pass def fibonacci(n, memory=[]): pass You don't even need documentation for the first example.
    • paulmcpazzi 14y ago
      Starting from Python 3.2 there is a builtin decorator: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache http://docs.python.org/dev/library/functools.html#functools....
      • StavrosK 14y ago
        That's fantastic, thanks for the link.