[Python-ideas] Clear all caches

[Guido van Rossum]

Regardless of whether we come up with a general solution (seems of doubtful
use to me), linecache really is last-century technology. :-(

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Barnert <
abarnert at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:

> On Apr 1, 2015, at 08:18, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Andrew Barnert
> > <abarnert at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> >> Anyway, why do you want this? Is there some cache that's using too much
> memory in an app of yours? Or is it more about getting a semi-clean start
> on the interactive interpreter? Or something different?
> >
> > Presumably http://bugs.python.org/issue23839.
>
> Ah, for running a large test suite (like the stdlib's). That makes sense.
>
> From the initial report ("in particular linecache") it seems at least
> possible that there's really just one cache that's a real issue, in which
> case there's a pretty obvious fix. (And making it possible to use linecache
> in a bounded way, instead of all-or-nothing clearing, might be useful for
> other purposes besides this...) But I don't know if that really is the
> case; did anyone check whether the 500MB were 90%+ in linecache or anything
> like that?
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