New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
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-* The functools module now includes a new decorator for caching function calls.
- :func:`functools.lru_cache` can save repeated queries to an external resource
- whenever the results are expected to be the same.
+* The :mod:`functools` module now includes a new decorator for caching
+ function calls. :func:`functools.lru_cache` can save repeated queries to an
+ external resource whenever the results are expected to be the same.
For example, adding a caching decorator to a database query function can save
database accesses for popular searches::
(Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8524`.)
-* The *sqlite3* module has some new features:
+* The :mod:`sqlite3` module has some new features:
* XXX *enable_load_extension*