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Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> I started again with Python. In Clojure you have memoize. I thought it
> nice to have this in Python also. So I wrote it. With a Fibonacci
> function to show the usefulness.
> You can find it here:
>     https://github.com/CecilWesterhof/PythonLibrary
> 
> I love to hear what you think of it.
> 
> And ideas for other functionalities are welcome also. Übung macht den
> Meister.

See also: 

https://docs.python.org/dev/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache

A bit hard to find unless you already know it's there.