Python package Expiring Dict is not working (automatic expiring)

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Using the following package for expiring dictionaries doesn’t work. Is there any known deprecation on the package? The GitHub repository seems inactive but the latest release was 1 and half years ago.

If the package is indeed deprecated, is there a well-known replacement?

Python 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux
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>>> from expiring_dict                          import ExpiringDict
>>> denms = ExpiringDict(max_age_seconds=3)
>>> denms["john"] = "doe"
>>> import time
>>> time.sleep(10)
>>> print(list(denms.items()))
[('max_age_seconds', 3), ('john', 'doe')]

From the package’s PyPI page:

Note: Iteration over dict and also keys() do not remove expired values!

IOW, I think you’d find that denms["john"] would not return a value:

>>> import expiringdict
>>> d = expiringdict.ExpiringDict(max_age_seconds=1, max_len=100)
>>> d["foo"] = "bar"
...
>>> d["foo"]
KeyError: 'foo'
>>>

Or, for the other similarly named package:

>>> import expiring_dict
>>> d = expiring_dict.ExpiringDict(1)
>>> d["foo"] = 10
>>> d["foo"]
KeyError: 'foo'
>>>

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