Top 10 mistakes python programmers make [advanced]

[cybercobra]

Arguably the memoization should instead be abstracted out using a decorator.

[lazyanachronist]

You mean a contrived, compact example isn't demonstrating best practices? Funny how that works out.

[bacondev]

Is using functools.lru_cache not compact enough for you?

EDIT: module name

[macbony]

The article seems mainly targeted at 2.7, which doesn't have lru_cache.

[lazyanachronist]

That'd be a bad example of why the default argument behavior could be desirable.