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0 pointsdotancohen2y ago0 comments

What are you using it for? A disk based cache seems almost contradictory for my use cases, I would love to hear yours. Anything that I would store on disk, even as a cache, I can generally put in SQLite.

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rmholt2y ago· 1 in thread

It pretty much does that, if I was to be a little reductive, DiskCache is just a wrapper around sqlite and pickle

p10_user2y ago

The degree of reduction is nice considering the countless times in the past where I wrote my own file cache logic using if/else statements, temporary files, pickle, and bespoke sqlite databases.

Why give myself the headache of maintaining so much extra code when someone already wrote it.

akx2y ago

You'll be happy to know that Diskcache is backed by SQLite (and/or spill files for large enough (size configurable) blobs).

quickslowdown2y ago

I write some toy Python scripts/apps for a couple APIs (the Pokeapi, Spacetraders, etc). I use the HTTPX library as a request client, and wasn't aware of the Hishel library for caching requests.

I used DiskCache to cache responses for ~15 minutes so I wasn't sending live requests every time I tested the app.

I'm not building anything "cloud scale," most things I run are off my local machine. Having a convenient, fast local cache that's simple to use (DiskCache) has so many uses, it's hard to think of them all! I might use a cache with no expiration to store some configs, or to store a serialized object for later retrieval. I might use it as an in-memory object cache while the program loads, so I don't have to spin up a Redis server.

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