On Feb 15, 5:56 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can clear the cache with > > filecmp._cache = {} > > as a glance into the filecmp module would have shown.
You are right, a quick glance would have enlighten me. Next time I will RTFS first. :-) > If you don't want to use the cache at all (untested): > > class NoCache: > def __setitem__(self, key, value): > pass > def get(self, key): > return None > filecmp._cache = NoCache() > Just one small tought/question. How likely am I to run into trouble because of this? I mean, by setting _cache to another value I'm mucking about in filecmp's implementation details. Is this generally considered OK when dealing with Python's standard library? :.:: mattias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list