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  r82773 | r.david.murray | 2010-07-10 10:25:18 -0400 (Sat, 10 Jul 2010) | 9 lines

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    r82771 | r.david.murray | 2010-07-10 10:23:36 -0400 (Sat, 10 Jul 2010) | 2 lines

    Add missing docs for re module 'purge' function.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
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@@ -660,6 +660,11 @@
    metacharacters in it.
 
 
+.. function:: purge()
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+   Clear the regular expression cache.
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+
 .. exception:: error
 
    Exception raised when a string passed to one of the functions here is not a