From: Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:16:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use global statement instead of importing ourselves to get to global
X-Git-Tag: v1.4b1~456
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5fe4af070bb5251304f30f1381f521de3c655bf;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Use global statement instead of importing ourselves to get to global
variable.
---

diff --git a/Lib/statcache.py b/Lib/statcache.py
index 04381f386159..770aef0662f4 100644
--- a/Lib/statcache.py
+++ b/Lib/statcache.py
@@ -22,14 +22,10 @@ def stat(path):
 
 
 # Reset the cache completely.
-# Hack: to reset a global variable, we import this module.
 #
 def reset():
-	import statcache
-	# Check that we really imported the same module
-	if cache is not statcache.cache:
-		raise 'sorry, statcache identity crisis'
-	statcache.cache = {}
+	global cache
+	cache = {}
 
 
 # Remove a given item from the cache, if it exists.