Python LRU Cache Decorator Per Instance

Assuming you don’t want to modify the code (e.g., because you want to be able to just port to 3.3 and use the stdlib functools.lru_cache, or use functools32 out of PyPI instead of copying and pasting a recipe into your code), there’s one obvious solution: Create a new decorated instance method with each instance.

class Test:
    def cached_method(self, x):
         return x + 5
    def __init__(self):
         self.cached_method = lru_cache(maxsize=16)(self.cached_method)