joblib.Memory

class joblib.Memory(location=None, backend='local', cachedir=None, mmap_mode=None, compress=False, verbose=1, bytes_limit=None, backend_options=None)

A context object for caching a function’s return value each time it is called with the same input arguments.

All values are cached on the filesystem, in a deep directory structure.

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters:
location: str or None

The path of the base directory to use as a data store or None. If None is given, no caching is done and the Memory object is completely transparent. This option replaces cachedir since version 0.12.

backend: str, optional

Type of store backend for reading/writing cache files. Default: ‘local’. The ‘local’ backend is using regular filesystem operations to manipulate data (open, mv, etc) in the backend.

cachedir: str or None, optional
mmap_mode: {None, ‘r+’, ‘r’, ‘w+’, ‘c’}, optional

The memmapping mode used when loading from cache numpy arrays. See numpy.load for the meaning of the arguments.

compress: boolean, or integer, optional

Whether to zip the stored data on disk. If an integer is given, it should be between 1 and 9, and sets the amount of compression. Note that compressed arrays cannot be read by memmapping.

verbose: int, optional

Verbosity flag, controls the debug messages that are issued as functions are evaluated.

bytes_limit: int, optional

Limit in bytes of the size of the cache. By default, the size of the cache is unlimited. When reducing the size of the cache, joblib keeps the most recently accessed items first.

Note: You need to call joblib.Memory.reduce_size() to actually reduce the cache size to be less than bytes_limit.

backend_options: dict, optional

Contains a dictionnary of named parameters used to configure the store backend.
__init__(location=None, backend='local', cachedir=None, mmap_mode=None, compress=False, verbose=1, bytes_limit=None, backend_options=None)
Parameters:
depth: int, optional

The depth of objects printed.

Methods

__init__([location, backend, cachedir, …])
Parameters:
cache([func, ignore, verbose, mmap_mode]) Decorates the given function func to only compute its return value for input arguments not cached on disk.
clear([warn]) Erase the complete cache directory.
debug(msg)
eval(func, *args, **kwargs) Eval function func with arguments *args and **kwargs, in the context of the memory.
format(obj[, indent]) Return the formatted representation of the object.
reduce_size() Remove cache elements to make cache size fit in bytes_limit.
warn(msg)