unittest keeps references to test cases alive

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4/5
Estimated time
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Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing

Research direction

The issue concerns Python's unittest library in the Lib component, but it names no implementation file or test. Start by locating unittest's test-case reference handling and reproduce the reported retention; done means test cases are no longer kept alive unnecessarily, with regression coverage for the behavior.

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Description

stdlib type-bug
BPO 17534
Nosy @pitrou, @ezio-melotti, @voidspace, @serhiy-storchaka

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2013-03-23.22:06:48.739>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'unittest keeps references to test cases alive'
updated_at = <Date 2018-12-11.23:25:10.908>
user = 'https://github.com/ezio-melotti'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2018-12-11.23:25:10.908>
actor = 'serhiy.storchaka'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2013-03-23.22:06:48.739>
creator = 'ezio.melotti'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 17534
keywords = []
message_count = 3.0
messages = ['185100', '185195', '331666']
nosy_count = 5.0
nosy_names = ['pitrou', 'ezio.melotti', 'michael.foord', 'tshepang', 'serhiy.storchaka']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'pending'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue17534'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4']

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