Caching class attributes in Python

Question

I\'m writing a class in python and I have an attribute that will take a relatively long time to compute, so I only want to do it once. Also, it will not be

Answer 1

The most simple way of doing this would probably be to just write a method (instead of using an attribute) that wraps around the attribute (getter method). On the first call, this methods calculates, saves and returns the value; later it just returns the saved value.