Nick Coghlan added the comment: Targeted API to forget a particular codec name.
Normally we don't care about the caching (as evidenced by the fact it took 14+ years to want this feature). The intent with this API is to be able to selective purge a particular codec when we either care about getting the latest version of a specific codec (no current use cases) or to avoid the appearance of leaking references when looking up lots of custom codecs (this case). I considered dropping the per-test naming scheme, but decided I liked the fact it kept these test instances orthogonal, even though they all use the shared TEST_CODECS registry. The lack of global side effects is also a benefit of just popping the named codec, rather than purging the entire cache. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36563/issue22166_with_forget_codec_helper_api.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22166> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
