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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-11 22:08:55 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-11 22:08:55 (GMT)
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diff --git a/Lib/functools.py b/Lib/functools.py
index 1062a45..03de69a 100644
--- a/Lib/functools.py
+++ b/Lib/functools.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def lru_cache(maxsize=100):
hits = misses = 0
kwd_mark = object() # separates positional and keyword args
- lock = Lock()
+ lock = Lock() # needed because ordereddicts aren't threadsafe
if maxsize is None:
cache = dict() # simple cache without ordering or size limit