diff Lib/test/test_filecmp.py @ 84124:bfd53dcb02ff

Issue #18149: Add filecmp.clear_cache() to manually clear the filecmp cache. Patch by Mark Levitt
author Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
date Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:19:11 -0700
parents a1efab48d8f8
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--- a/Lib/test/test_filecmp.py	Fri Jun 14 15:04:26 2013 -0400
+++ b/Lib/test/test_filecmp.py	Fri Jun 14 15:19:11 2013 -0700
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@
         self.assertFalse(filecmp.cmp(self.name, self.dir),
                     "File and directory compare as equal")
 
+    def test_cache_clear(self):
+        first_compare = filecmp.cmp(self.name, self.name_same, shallow=False)
+        second_compare = filecmp.cmp(self.name, self.name_diff, shallow=False)
+        filecmp.clear_cache()
+        self.assertTrue(len(filecmp._cache) == 0,
+                        "Cache not cleared after calling clear_cache")
+
 class DirCompareTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         tmpdir = tempfile.gettempdir()