From c6dcdf824a8ab9bd4de391401125d88f6dea666d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "benjamin.peterson"
 <benjamin.peterson@6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:06:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 85392 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r85392 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-12 17:57:59 -0500 (Tue, 12 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  prefer clearing global objects to obscure module.__dict__ bugs #10068
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git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release31-maint@85394 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771
---
 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst |  7 +++++++
 Lib/test/test_module.py     | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 Misc/NEWS                   |  3 +++
 Objects/moduleobject.c      |  5 +----
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 3d1d26d3fc..9643f2b79e 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -654,6 +654,13 @@ Modules
    Special read-only attribute: :attr:`__dict__` is the module's namespace as a
    dictionary object.
 
+   .. impl-detail::
+
+      Because of the way CPython clears module dictionaries, the module
+      dictionary will be cleared when the module falls out of scope even if the
+      dictionary still has live references.  To avoid this, copy the dictionary
+      or keep the module around while using its dictionary directly.
+
    .. index::
       single: __name__ (module attribute)
       single: __doc__ (module attribute)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_module.py b/Lib/test/test_module.py
index 21ddc9af6f..7734fb04a2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_module.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_module.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Test the module type
 import unittest
-from test.support import run_unittest
+from test.support import run_unittest, gc_collect
 
 import sys
 ModuleType = type(sys)
@@ -55,14 +55,29 @@ class ModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
               {"__name__": "foo", "__doc__": "foodoc", "bar": 42})
         self.assertTrue(foo.__dict__ is d)
 
+    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_dont_clear_dict(self):
         # See issue 7140.
         def f():
             foo = ModuleType("foo")
             foo.bar = 4
             return foo
+        gc_collect()
         self.assertEqual(f().__dict__["bar"], 4)
 
+    def test_clear_dict_in_ref_cycle(self):
+        destroyed = []
+        m = ModuleType("foo")
+        m.destroyed = destroyed
+        s = """class A:
+    def __del__(self):
+        destroyed.append(1)
+a = A()"""
+        exec(s, m.__dict__)
+        del m
+        gc_collect()
+        self.assertEqual(destroyed, [1])
+
 def test_main():
     run_unittest(ModuleTests)
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4f45059847..f4ba9db805 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Issue #83755:  Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
 
+- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
+  dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
+
 - Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
   output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
 
diff --git a/Objects/moduleobject.c b/Objects/moduleobject.c
index def37810b8..5dd9c017e0 100644
--- a/Objects/moduleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/moduleobject.c
@@ -312,10 +312,7 @@ module_dealloc(PyModuleObject *m)
     if (m->md_def && m->md_def->m_free)
         m->md_def->m_free(m);
     if (m->md_dict != NULL) {
-        /* If we are the only ones holding a reference, we can clear
-           the dictionary. */
-        if (Py_REFCNT(m->md_dict) == 1)
-            _PyModule_Clear((PyObject *)m);
+        _PyModule_Clear((PyObject *)m);
         Py_DECREF(m->md_dict);
     }
     if (m->md_state != NULL)
-- 
2.11.4.GIT