7868362 Add a new utils module

Authored and Committed by bochecha 9 years ago
    Add a new utils module
    
    This is going to contain random bits and pieces of utilities.
    
    Currently, it only contains a cached_property class, which is going to
    be useful to create properties which are only computed the first time
    they are called, but have their return value cached for future calls.
    
        
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