New submission from Andrew Clegg <a...@pml.ac.uk>: The fnmatch module has a cache of translation between glob patterns and compiled regular expressions. However this cache is never emptied; only added to. I am writing a python program which as part of its execution checks millions of unique globs - this causes the fnmatch cache to grow enormous.
Attached is a patch to limit the size of the fnmatch cache to 100 (chosen to be the same size as the re module). ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: fnmatch.patch keywords: patch messages: 98786 nosy: andrewclegg severity: normal status: open title: Fnmatch cache is never cleared during usage versions: Python 2.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16116/fnmatch.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7846> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
