On 01/08/2013 10:59am, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> If you replace the end of your script with the following:
>
> for name, mod in sys.modules.items():
>      if name != 'encodings':
>          mod.__dict__["__blob__"] = Blob(name)
> del name, mod, Blob
>
>
> then at the end of the shutdown phase, remaining is empty.

On Windows, even with this change, I get for example:

   # remaining {'encodings.mbcs', '__main__', 'encodings.cp1252'}
   ...
   [22081 refs, 6742 blocks]

or

   # remaining {'__main__', 'encodings'}
   ...
   [23538 refs, 7136 blocks]