python threadsafe object cache

Question

I have implemented a python webserver. Each http request spawns a new thread. I have a requirement of caching objects in memory and since its a webserver, I want the cache t

Answer 1

You probably want to use memcached instead. It's very fast, very stable, very popular, has good python libraries, and will allow you to grow to a distributed cache should you need to:

http://www.danga.com/memcached/