The low-level cache API allows you to store objects in the cache with any granularity. It is located at django.core.cache. You can import it like this:
from django.core.cache import cache
This uses the default cache. It's equivalent to caches['default']. Accessing a specific cache is also possible via its alias:
from django.core.cache import cachesmy_cache = caches['alias']
Let's take a look at how the cache API works. Open the shell with the command python manage.py shell and execute the following code:
>>> from django.core.cache import cache>>> cache.set('musician', 'Django Reinhardt', 20)
We access the default cache backend and use set(key, value, timeout) to store a key named 'musician' with a value that ...
