Issue 13227: Option to make the lru_cache() type specific (suggested by Andrew Koenig).
diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index cdf5976..4b90b3f 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
def purge():
"Clear the regular expression caches"
- _compile_typed.cache_clear()
+ _compile.cache_clear()
_compile_repl.cache_clear()
def template(pattern, flags=0):
@@ -253,11 +253,8 @@
_pattern_type = type(sre_compile.compile("", 0))
+@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=500, typed=True)
def _compile(pattern, flags):
- return _compile_typed(type(pattern), pattern, flags)
-
-@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=500)
-def _compile_typed(text_bytes_type, pattern, flags):
# internal: compile pattern
if isinstance(pattern, _pattern_type):
if flags: