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11503	Cache backend should expose a flush method	andrewfong	andrewfong	"The low level cache interface (django.core.cache.cache) should expose a method to flush out the entire cache. The primary use of this, off the top of my head, would be to make it easier to test caching by flushing out everything in between tests, although there are probably other use cases as well.

Currently, in order to do this, you have to rely on different methods for each backend. For example, with the memcached backend, you call cache._cache.flush_all(), whereas with locmem, you set cache._cache = {}. Having backends implement a flush method would make this consistent across all supported backend options."		closed	Core (Cache system)	dev		duplicate	flush	david@… chris@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0