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Subject: Re: Lazy Attribute
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On 16.11.2012, at 11:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> I'm very vaguely leaning towards this as the least-worst solution to=20=

> invalidating the cached value:
>=20
> refresh(obj, 'attr')  # pass the instance and the name

This it exactly how lazy handles invalidation. =
http://lazy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Stefan

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