python-diskcache

Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python.

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Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python.

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2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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dogline·Dec 16, 2021

I had to look these up (just me doing Google searches): - tqdm: progress bars (https://tqdm.github.io/) - rich: text formatting (https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich) - textual: TUI, using rich (https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual) - fastpi: Rest APIs (https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) - typer: CLI Library, uses Click (https://typer.tiangolo.com/) - pydantic: Custom data types (https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/) - shiv: Create Python zipapps (https://shiv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - toga: GUI Toolkit (https://toga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - doit: Task runner (https://pydoit.org/) - diskcache: A disk cache (https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache/)

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Anonymous4272·May 16, 2021

Similar to litements litecache is DiskCache[0]. It is a pure python Redis/Memcached alternative which is faster than them for reads. Under the hood it uses shared Sqlite. [0] https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache

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