Provide standard infrastructure for clearing global caches
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- Python
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Description
It turns out that some global caches have memory leak issues while the refleak CI is running.
The global cache is not the problem, but we must provide a better solution to clear them after the tests.
Suggestion from @gvanrossum: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/101988#pullrequestreview-1303639924
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the issue's suggested approach in the linked pull request and tracing how refleak CI runs tests. The work is complete when standard infrastructure clears the relevant global caches after tests and resolves the reported cache-related memory leaks.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- testing-qa
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100