I wrote PR 12743 to modify _abc: use weakref.WeakSet rather than using directly a set of weak references. With this PR, calling _get_dump() should clear all broken weak references. I'm not sure if it's really useful for this specific issue, since dash_R_cleanup() calls obj._abc_caches_clear() on all abstract base classes (ABC): all caches must be removed before reading the total number of allocated memory blocks (sys.getallocatedblocks()).