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-cachier
+Cachier
 =======
 
-Persistent, stale-free memoization decorators for Python.
+Persistent, stale-free cache / memoization decorators for Python.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+  from cachier import cachier
+  
+  @cachier()
+  def foo(arg1, arg2):
+    """Your function now has a persistent cache mapped by argument values!"""
+    return {'arg1': arg1, 'arg2': arg2}
+    
+
+Dependencies and Setup
+----------------------
+
+s3bp uses the following packages:
+
+* pymongo's `bson package`_
+* watchdog_
+
+You can install cachier using:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    pip install cachier
+
+
+Use
+---
+
+Pickle-based Caching
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+You can add a deafult, pickle-based persistent cache to your function by decorating int with the `cachier` decorator (notice the `()`!).
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+  from cachier import cachier
+  
+  @cachier()
+  def foo(arg1, arg2):
+    """Your function now has a persistent cache mapped by argument values!"""
+    return {'arg1': arg1, 'arg2': arg2}
+
+
+
+.. links:
+.. _bson package: https://api.mongodb.com/python/current/api/bson/
+.. _watchdog: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog