DiskCache: Disk Backed Cache

[amotl]

Dear Jordan,

because we have been in touch at grafana-toolbox/grafana-wtf#111 ¹, I wanted to tell you about DiskCache by @grantjenks. It might come handy as a rock solid file-based cache backend for requests-cache, not needing to handle locking and other concerns on behalf of this code, but deferring it to the library instead.

Documentation: https://grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/
Repository: https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache

With kind regards,
Andreas.

References

• Filesystem backend: Add optional file lock for multiprocess usage #603
• Filesystem backend: Optionally split large caches into multiple levels of subdirectories #604
• Not multi threading ready? #813
• deadlock with threads #820
• Get rid of dbmfile-based dogpile cache earthobservations/wetterdienst#243
• Database is locked in thread ... error grafana-toolbox/grafana-wtf#111 ²

Footnotes

1. Thank you so much for your valuable suggestions. ↩

2. This one is not strictly related, because it is about the SQLite backend. However, it is still within the same problem domain, and is the place where we met @JWCook. In this spirit, we added it to that enumeration. ↩

[amotl]

While writing the OP, I discovered that post by @ziddey, and also your mention in another post.

• Add optional LRU-style behavior? #116 (comment)
• Feature request: Django Cache backend #685 (comment)