[issue40217] The garbage collector doesn't take in account that objects of heap allocated types hold a strong reference to their type

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

FYI I closed bpo-40149: the commit 0169d3003be3d072751dd14a5c84748ab63a249f fixed test_threading leak.

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For master, it would be nice to have a NEWS entry, and maybe also a What's New in Python 3.9 entry, maybe in the "Changes in the C API" section.

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Now, what about Python 3.8? The commit 364f0b0f19cc3f0d5e63f571ec9163cf41c62958 is part of Python 3.8.0. Is it ok to backport the commit 0169d3003be3d072751dd14a5c84748ab63a249f into Python 3.8.3?

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