#!/usr/bin/env python

import functools

class memoized(object):
   """Decorator. Caches a function's return value each time it is called. If called later with the same arguments, the cached value is returned (not reevaluated)."""
   def __init__(self, func):
      self.func = func
      self.cache = {}
   def __call__(self, *args):
      try:
         return self.cache[args]
      except KeyError:
         value = self.func(*args)
         self.cache[args] = value
         return value
      except TypeError:
         # uncachable -- for instance, passing a list as an argument.
         # Better to not cache than to blow up entirely.
         return self.func(*args)
   def __repr__(self):
      '''Return the function's docstring.'''
      return self.func.__doc__
   def __get__(self, obj, objtype):
      '''Support instance methods.'''
      return functools.partial(self.__call__, obj)