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Author	ammar2
Recipients	Denny Weinberg, ammar2, belopolsky, ncoghlan, palm.kevin
Date	2016-07-07.00:18:31
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Message-id	<1467850712.24.0.875273712148.issue27400@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Is there any particular reason that datetime.strptime caches the imported module like that? From a quick search, these two other examples don't bother with any caching: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2d264235f6e066611b412f7c2e1603866e0f7f1b/Modules/timemodule.c#L709 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/64fe35c9fee088f7fec4dd2d760cb0026ac54ec8/Python/traceback.c#L277

Is there any particular reason that datetime.strptime caches the imported module like that? 

From a quick search, these two other examples don't bother with any caching: 

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2d264235f6e066611b412f7c2e1603866e0f7f1b/Modules/timemodule.c#L709

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/64fe35c9fee088f7fec4dd2d760cb0026ac54ec8/Python/traceback.c#L277

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