How to use 2 different cache backends in Django?
CACHES = { 'default': { 'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache', 'LOCATION': 'c:/foo/bar', }, 'inmem': { 'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache', }} from django.core.cache import get_cache, cacheinmem_cache = get_cache('inmem')default_cache = get_cache('default')# default_cache == cache
Since Django 1.9, get_cache is deprecated. Do the following to address keys from 'inmem' (addition to answer by Romans):
from django.core.cache import cachescaches['inmem'].get(key)
In addition to Romans's answer above... You can also conditionally import a cache by name, and use the default (or any other cache) if the requested doesn't exist.
from django.core.cache import cache as default_cache, get_cachefrom django.core.cache.backends.base import InvalidCacheBackendErrortry: cache = get_cache('foo-cache')except InvalidCacheBackendError: cache = default_cachecache.get('foo')