Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now garbage-collected at shutdown.

Lib/test/test_gc.py

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import unittest
 from test.support import (verbose, refcount_test, run_unittest,
                             strip_python_stderr)
+from test.script_helper import assert_python_ok, make_script, temp_dir
+
 import sys
 import time
 import gc
@@ -610,6 +612,40 @@ class GCTests(unittest.TestCase):
         stderr = run_command(code % "gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL")
         self.assertNotIn(b"uncollectable objects at shutdown", stderr)
 
+    def test_gc_main_module_at_shutdown(self):
+        # Create a reference cycle through the __main__ module and check
+        # it gets collected at interpreter shutdown.
+        code = """if 1:
+            import weakref
+            class C:
+                def __del__(self):
+                    print('__del__ called')
+            l = [C()]
+            l.append(l)
+            """
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-c', code)
+        self.assertEqual(out.strip(), b'__del__ called')
+
+    def test_gc_ordinary_module_at_shutdown(self):
+        # Same as above, but with a non-__main__ module.
+        with temp_dir() as script_dir:
+            module = """if 1:
+                import weakref
+                class C:
+                    def __del__(self):
+                        print('__del__ called')
+                l = [C()]
+                l.append(l)
+                """
+            code = """if 1:
+                import sys
+                sys.path.insert(0, %r)
+                import gctest
+                """ % (script_dir,)
+            make_script(script_dir, 'gctest', module)
+            rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-c', code)
+            self.assertEqual(out.strip(), b'__del__ called')
+
     def test_get_stats(self):
         stats = gc.get_stats()
         self.assertEqual(len(stats), 3)