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Introduction to functools

Understand how to use the functools module to enhance your Python functions. Learn to implement lru_cache for caching results, create partial functions, utilize singledispatch for function overloading, and use wraps for maintaining function metadata.

Python comes with a fun module called functools. The functions inside functools are considered “higher-order” functions which can act on or return other functions. In this chapter, we will be looking at the following portions of the functools package:

  • lru_cache
  • partials
  • singledispatch
  • wraps
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