[issue37788] fix for bpo-36402 (threading._shutdown() race condition) causes reference leak

[miss-islington]

Change by miss-islington <mariatta.wijaya+miss-islington at gmail.com>:


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pull_requests: +15053
pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15336

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