what happens to Popen()'s parent-side file descriptors?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message
<8bec27dd-b1da-4aa3-81e8-9665db04047b at n40g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, Roger 
Davis wrote:

> Documentation on python.org states that GC can be postponed or omitted
> altogether ...

Yes, but no sensible Python implementation would do that, as it’s a recipe 
for resource bloat.