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| author | Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> | 2018-09-11 04:37:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2018-09-11 04:37:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 3666b3c1f695a145adab1bf644c22e564e8eb0ee (patch) | |
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| parent | 5033aa77aacaa5505636f150e8d54baac5bdca9c (diff) | |
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bpo-33032: Mention the implicit cache in struct.Struct() docs (GH-7700)
Mention the implicit cache in struct.Struct() docs.
Consistent with the re.compile documentation note.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index d6a3cb7..bad33ac 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -405,6 +405,12 @@ The :mod:`struct` module also defines the following type: methods is more efficient than calling the :mod:`struct` functions with the same format since the format string only needs to be compiled once. + .. note:: + + The compiled versions of the most recent format strings passed to + :class:`Struct` and the module-level functions are cached, so programs + that use only a few format strings needn't worry about reusing a single + :class:`Struct` instance. Compiled Struct objects support the following methods and attributes: |