[Python-Dev] Bizarre new test failure

[Neil Schemenauer]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Any idea why this would only happen on Windows?

What only happens on Windows?  If can reliably reproduce the problem on
Linux.

> I tried it on Linux and couldn't get it to fail.  Not even with
> gc.set_threshold(1).

I think you want gc.disable().

> I'll go review my tp_clear code next.

I'm narrowing in on the change the broke things.  It happened between
Dec 1 and Dec 15.

  Neil