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-rw-r--r--Lib/re.py32
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_re.py62
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 84 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 2f1a76eaa5..269eaef855 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ This module also defines an exception 'error'.
import sys
import sre_compile
import sre_parse
+import functools
# public symbols
__all__ = [ "match", "search", "sub", "subn", "split", "findall",
@@ -205,9 +206,9 @@ def compile(pattern, flags=0):
return _compile(pattern, flags)
def purge():
- "Clear the regular expression cache"
- _cache.clear()
- _cache_repl.clear()
+ "Clear the regular expression caches"
+ _compile_typed.clear()
+ _compile_repl.clear()
def template(pattern, flags=0):
"Compile a template pattern, returning a pattern object"
@@ -289,12 +290,12 @@ def _shrink_cache(cache_dict, max_length, divisor=5):
# Ignore problems if the cache changed from another thread.
pass
-def _compile(*key):
+def _compile(*args):
+ return _compile_typed(type(args[0]), *args)
+
+@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=_MAXCACHE)
+def _compile_typed(type, *key):
# internal: compile pattern
- cachekey = (type(key[0]),) + key
- p = _cache.get(cachekey)
- if p is not None:
- return p
pattern, flags = key
if isinstance(pattern, _pattern_type):
if flags:
@@ -303,23 +304,14 @@ def _compile(*key):
return pattern
if not sre_compile.isstring(pattern):
raise TypeError("first argument must be string or compiled pattern")
- p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
- if len(_cache) >= _MAXCACHE:
- _shrink_cache(_cache, _MAXCACHE)
- _cache[cachekey] = p
+ return sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
return p
+@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=_MAXCACHE)
def _compile_repl(*key):
# internal: compile replacement pattern
- p = _cache_repl.get(key)
- if p is not None:
- return p
repl, pattern = key
- p = sre_parse.parse_template(repl, pattern)
- if len(_cache_repl) >= _MAXCACHE:
- _shrink_cache(_cache_repl, _MAXCACHE)
- _cache_repl[key] = p
- return p
+ return sre_parse.parse_template(repl, pattern)
def _expand(pattern, match, template):
# internal: match.expand implementation hook
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 6b11685e9c..96a83b88c1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -875,70 +875,8 @@ def run_re_tests():
print('=== Fails on unicode-sensitive match', t)
-class ReCacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
- """These tests are specific to the re._shrink_cache implementation."""
-
- def setUp(self):
- self._orig_maxcache = re._MAXCACHE
-
- def tearDown(self):
- re._MAXCACHE = self._orig_maxcache
-
- def test_compile_cache_overflow(self):
- # NOTE: If a profiler or debugger is tracing code and compiling
- # regular expressions while tracing through this test... expect
- # the test to fail. This test is not concurrency safe.
-
- # Explicitly fill the caches.
- re._MAXCACHE = 20
- max_cache = re._MAXCACHE
- unique_chars = tuple(chr(char_num) for char_num in
- range(b'a'[0], b'a'[0]+max_cache))
- re._cache.clear()
- for char in unique_chars:
- re._compile(char, 0)
- self.assertEqual(max_cache, len(re._cache))
- re._cache_repl.clear()
- for char in unique_chars:
- re._compile_repl(char*2, char)
- self.assertEqual(max_cache, len(re._cache_repl))
-
- # Overflow both caches and make sure they have extra room left
- # afterwards as well as having more than a single entry.
- re._compile('A', 0)
- self.assertLess(len(re._cache), max_cache)
- self.assertGreater(len(re._cache), 1)
- re._compile_repl('A', 'A')
- self.assertLess(len(re._cache_repl), max_cache)
- self.assertGreater(len(re._cache_repl), 1)
-
- def test_shrink_cache_at_limit(self):
- cache = dict(zip(range(6), range(6)))
- re._shrink_cache(cache, 6, divisor=3)
- self.assertEqual(4, len(cache))
-
- def test_shrink_cache_empty(self):
- cache = {}
- re._shrink_cache(cache, 6, divisor=3)
- # Cache was empty, make sure we didn't raise an exception.
- self.assertEqual(0, len(cache))
-
- def test_shrink_cache_overflowing(self):
- cache = dict(zip(range(6), range(6)))
- re._shrink_cache(cache, 4, divisor=2)
- # Cache was larger than the maximum, be sure we shrunk to smaller.
- self.assertEqual(2, len(cache))
-
- def test_shrink_cache_underflow(self):
- cache = dict(zip(range(6), range(6)))
- # No shrinking to do.
- re._shrink_cache(cache, 9, divisor=3)
- self.assertEqual(6, len(cache))
-
-
def test_main():
run_unittest(ReTests)
- run_unittest(ReCacheTests)
run_re_tests()
if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 00188d4f94..57bcf8ea5f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -697,8 +697,8 @@ Library
- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
- simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to randomly forgetting 20% of the
- existing cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
+ simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
+ used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.