[issue11798] Test cases not garbage collected after run

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Jean-Paul Calderone <invalid at example.invalid> added the comment:

> I thought unittest was just handed a bunch of TestCase instances and couldn't do much about insuring they were garbage collected.

True.  But unittest could ensure that it doesn't keep a reference to each TestCase instance after it finishes running it.  Then, if no one else has a reference either, it can be garbage collected.

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