[3.13] pythongh-127750: Fix functools.singledispatchmethod() (pythonGH-130029)

Revert pythongh-107148

Author: eendebakpt

Lib/functools.py

@@ -958,9 +958,6 @@ def __init__(self, func):
         self.dispatcher = singledispatch(func)
         self.func = func
 
-        import weakref # see comment in singledispatch function
-        self._method_cache = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
-
     def register(self, cls, method=None):
         """generic_method.register(cls, func) -> func
 
@@ -969,16 +966,6 @@ def register(self, cls, method=None):
         return self.dispatcher.register(cls, func=method)
 
     def __get__(self, obj, cls=None):
-        if self._method_cache is not None:
-            try:
-                _method = self._method_cache[obj]
-            except TypeError:
-                self._method_cache = None
-            except KeyError:
-                pass
-            else:
-                return _method
-
         dispatch = self.dispatcher.dispatch
         funcname = getattr(self.func, '__name__', 'singledispatchmethod method')
         def _method(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -991,9 +978,6 @@ def _method(*args, **kwargs):
         _method.register = self.register
         update_wrapper(_method, self.func)
 
-        if self._method_cache is not None:
-            self._method_cache[obj] = _method
-
         return _method
 
     @property

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-02-12-09-48-25.gh-issue-127750.ibhIZg.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Remove broken :func:`functools.singledispatchmethod` caching introduced in
+:gh:`85160`.