[issue7341] test_tarfile failing (file in use when deleting) on Windows buildbots

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 à 12:11 +0000, Lars Gustäbel a écrit :
> Lars Gustäbel <lars at gustaebel.de> added the comment:
> 
> Any idea why the 2.x buildbots aren't failing? The code is basically the
> same. Coincidence?

No, the difference is that exception objects carry the traceback with
them in 3.x, which keeps alive a reference cycle long enough for
`fileobj` not to be garbage collected before the next test run.

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