Ammar Askar added the comment: Is there any particular reason that datetime.strptime caches the imported module like that?
>From a quick search, these two other examples don't bother with any caching: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2d264235f6e066611b412f7c2e1603866e0f7f1b/Modules/timemodule.c#L709 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/64fe35c9fee088f7fec4dd2d760cb0026ac54ec8/Python/traceback.c#L277 ---------- nosy: +ammar2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27400> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com