Expiring Dict
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expiringdict is a Python caching library. The core of the library is ExpiringDict class which
is an ordered dictionary with auto-expiring values for caching purposes. Expiration happens on
any access, object is locked during cleanup from expired values. ExpiringDict can not store
more than `max_len` elements - the oldest will be deleted.

**Note:** Iteration over dict and also keys() do not remove expired values!

Installation
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If you wish to install from PyPi:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip install expiringdict

If you wish to download the source and install from GitHub:

.. code-block:: bash

    git clone git@github.com:mailgun/expiringdict.git
    python setup.py install

or to install with test dependencies (`Nose <http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/en/latest/>`_, `Mock <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/>`_, `coverage <http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/>`_) run from the directory above:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip install -e expiringdict[test]

To run tests with coverage:

.. code-block:: bash

    nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package=expiringdict

Usage
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Create a dictionary with capacity for 100 elements and elements expiring in 10 seconds:

.. code-block:: py

    from expiringdict import ExpiringDict
    cache = ExpiringDict(max_len=100, max_age_seconds=10)

put and get a value there:

.. code-block:: py

     cache["key"] = "value"
     cache.get("key")
