Is "PyIntBlocks are never returned to the system before shutdown" right?

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/26/2012 10:21 AM, ZHONG Chen wrote:
> "PyIntBlocks are never returned to the system before shutdown"
> I saw this comment in Python 2.6.8's source code: Objects/intobject.c
> line 25
>
> But in the function PyInt_ClearFreeList()
> It will call PyMem_FREE(list) for empty int block.
>
> Why?

Before proceeding, I would check the current 2.7.3 code.
It is possible that the comment is obsolete.
You might be a better idea if you clone the hg repository and check the 
history for when those two lines were last modified.

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Terry Jan Reedy