💭 DiskCache API Reference — DiskCache 5.6.1 documentation
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Date: July 3, 2024

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diskcache has a peekitem method that allows you to lookup the expire_time of a cached item without changing it. I recently used this to implement debounce for fastapi </fastapi/> background tasks with multiple workers running. since all the workers I care about are on the same machine, but running in different processes diskcache was a great option. All workers have access to the same disk, but not the same variables in memory.

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