On: A few things to remember while coding in Python

[stavros]

I'm a Python veteran, and, if you do it like this, I'll shoot you.

Add a @memoize decorator and do it there, you need to always be as obvious as possible. Compare:

    @memoize
    def fibonacci(n): pass
    
    def fibonacci(n, memory=[]): pass

You don't even need documentation for the first example.

[paulmcpazzi → stavros]

Starting from Python 3.2 there is a builtin decorator: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/functools.html#functools....

[stavros → paulmcpazzi]

That's fantastic, thanks for the link.