CacheLib

A collection of cache libraries in the same API interface. Extracted from Werkzeug.

Supported backends include:

• DynamoDbCache (DynamoDB)
• FileSystemCache (file based)
• MemcachedCache (Memcached)
• MongoDbCache (MongoDB)
• RedisCache (Redis)
• SimpleCache (in-memory, single-process)
• UWSGICache (uWSGI)
• ValkeyCache (Valkey)

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Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install cachelib

A Minimal Example

from cachelib import SimpleCache

# Create a cache instance
cache = SimpleCache()

# Set a value in the cache
cache.set("my_key", "my_value")

# Retrieve the value from the cache
value = cache.get("my_key")
print(value)  # Output: my_value

# Delete the value from the cache
cache.delete("my_key")

# Try to retrieve the deleted value
value = cache.get("my_key")
print(value)  # Output: None