Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: It's simply because all classes form a cycle (Foo -> Foo.__mro__ -> Foo) A class and class attributes can only be freed with gc.collect(). Did you disable the garbage collector?
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