[Python-ideas] Clear all caches

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 21:01:08 CEST 2015


Hi,

2015-04-01 14:28 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>:
> There are a lot of implicit caches in the stdlib. Some of them can grow
> unlimitedly. It would be good to have an official way to clear caches.
>
> I proposed to add two functions (in some existing lightweight module or add
> a new module):

I proposed a similar idea 2 years ago:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129218.html

Victor


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