[Python-Dev] refleaks and caches (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Jan 28 02:33:05 CET 2008


On Jan 27, 2008 3:37 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Expose an API to clear the cache, and clear it at shutdown? It > should probably be part of interpreter shutdown anyway.

Good point. I've implemented PyTypeClearCache and exposed it via sys.cleartypecache(). The function is called during finalization, too.

Ignoring whether this is the right thing to do, should this be in sys or in gc?

-Brett



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