Armin Rigo added the comment:

If I understood correctly, Python 3.4 tries harder to find cycles and call 
destructors at the end of the program, but that's not a full guarantee.  For 
example you can have a reference from a random C extension module.

While trying to come up with an example, I found one that I don't fully 
understand, but the point is that it shows how easy it is to defeats it:

    import sys
    f = open('foo.txt', 'w')
    f.write('abc')
    def func(*args):
        return func
    sys.settrace(func)

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