[Python-Dev] refleaks and caches

[Brett Cannon]

On Jan 27, 2008 3:37 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > Expose an API to clear the cache, and clear it at shutdown?  It
> > should probably be part of interpreter shutdown anyway.
>
> Good point. I've implemented PyType_ClearCache and exposed it via
> sys._cleartypecache(). The function is called during finalization, too.
>

Ignoring whether this is the right thing to do, should this be in sys or in gc?

-Brett