clear_cache function

(Shortest import: from brian2.__init__ import clear_cache)

brian2.__init__.clear_cache(target)

Clears the on-disk cache with the compiled files for a given code generation target.

Parameters:

target : str

The code generation target (e.g. 'weave' or 'cython')

Raises

ValueError

If the given code generation target does not have an on-disk cache

IOError

If the cache directory contains unexpected files, suggesting that deleting it would also delete files unrelated to the cache.