[Python-ideas] Unified style of cache management API

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 08:04:59 EDT 2019


29.03.19 20:52, Brett Cannon пише:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:53 AM Serhiy Storchaka 
> <storchaka at gmail.com 
> <mailto:storchaka at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     28.03.19 19:45, Brett Cannon пише:
>      > So I would say that a cache-clearing function convention would be a
>      > reasonable starting point. If that turns out to not be enough for
>     folks
>      > we can talk about expanding it, but I think we should start small
>     and
>      > grow from there as needed.
>      >
>      > So what name would people want. clear_cache() or _clear_cache()? I
>      > personally prefer the latter since clearing the cache shouldn't be
>      > something people should typically need to do and thus the
>     function is an
>      > implementation detail.
> 
>     This is an interesting idea. I think it should be a dunder name:
>     __clearcache__() or __clear_cache__().
> 
> 
> Between those two then I would go with __clearcache__(), but I was 
> talking about a naming scheme for a function in each module, not a new 
> built-in in case you thought I meant that.

Then I understood you correctly. Only now I saw that your words could 
have been understood differently.

Opened https://bugs.python.org/issue36485 for implementing this idea.



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