Message 198389 - Python tracker

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I'm wondering too. While the code in Popen.__del__() is almost same, I can't reproduce the issue in 3.3. Perhaps it relates to some 3.4 changes? Import machinery, weak references, the shutdown process?

Before applying the patch which fixes Popen.__del__() I want understand what happens.