Merged revisions 82766 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
Since 'purge' is an API change, modified it to be _purge for 2.x
and deleted the doc update.
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r82766 | r.david.murray | 2010-07-10 09:52:13 -0400 (Sat, 10 Jul 2010) | 5 lines
Fix 'refleak' introduced by fnmatch cache purge tests.
This introduces a 'purge' function for the fnmatch module analogous
to the 'purge' function in the re module.
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diff --git a/Lib/fnmatch.py b/Lib/fnmatch.py
index b1c37f5..ffe99b5 100644
--- a/Lib/fnmatch.py
+++ b/Lib/fnmatch.py
@@ -12,11 +12,15 @@
import re
-__all__ = ["filter", "fnmatch","fnmatchcase","translate"]
+__all__ = ["filter", "fnmatch", "fnmatchcase", "translate"]
_cache = {}
_MAXCACHE = 100
+def _purge():
+ """Clear the pattern cache"""
+ _cache.clear()
+
def fnmatch(name, pat):
"""Test whether FILENAME matches PATTERN.