Show contents of cache() and lru_cache()

[adityaraute]

Proposal:

Allow an option for developers to view the contents of the cache object created through the @lru_cache decorator (link to the doc) , similar in structure to the cache_info() object.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

[rhettinger]

Thank you for the suggestion but I will decline. The internal data structure is intensionally opaque. This has allowed us to make significant changes in what is cached (i.e. f(a=1, b=2) and f(b=2, a=1) are currently distinct but used to be considered equal).

[adityaraute]

Thank you for the suggestion but I will decline. The internal data structure is intensionally opaque.

Could you guide me on how to locally make this possible?
I really need to read the contents of the cache and am struggling to find a way through the package

[brianschubert]

@adityaraute I’d advise opening a thread on https://discuss.python.org/c/help/7. Discussions there are more visible and won’t ping everyone watching.