[issue9396] Standardise (and publish?) cache handling in standard library

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

The standard library has several cache implementations (e.g. in re, fnmatch and ElementTree) with different cache size limiting strategies. These should be standardised and possibly even exposed for general use.

Refer to python-dev discussion:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102473.html

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 111790
nosy: ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Standardise (and publish?) cache handling in standard library
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3

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