From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:35:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch by Itamar S.T. (SF#305470): add reset() method.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b1~11
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1d053cc3f3c02595363015e0bee161e1aa4695c;p=python

Patch by Itamar S.T. (SF#305470): add reset() method.
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diff --git a/Lib/dircache.py b/Lib/dircache.py
index a999743a8d..6171ff83fd 100644
--- a/Lib/dircache.py
+++ b/Lib/dircache.py
@@ -6,10 +6,15 @@ The annotate() routine appends slashes to directories."""
 
 import os
 
-__all__ = ["listdir","opendir","annotate"]
+__all__ = ["listdir", "opendir", "annotate", "reset"]
 
 cache = {}
 
+def reset():
+      """Reset the cache completely."""
+      global cache
+      cache = {}
+
 def listdir(path):
     """List directory contents, using cache."""
     try: