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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>1997-02-18 18:59:37 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>1997-02-18 18:59:37 (GMT)
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Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary.
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@@ -49,3 +49,10 @@ pattern uses any characters except letters, digits and underscores as
word delimiters. Capitalization is done by changing the first
character of each word to upper case.
\end{funcdesc}
+
+\begin{funcdesc}{clear_cache}{}
+The regsub module maintains a cache of compiled regular expressions,
+keyed on the regular expression string and the syntax of the regex
+module at the time the expression was compiled. This function clears
+that cache.
+\end{funcdesc}