Ned Deily added the comment:

tkinter is pretty much just a thin wrapper around the Tcl/Tk C API so suspicion 
for behavior like this start there.  Usually, the easiest way to confirm that 
is to write an equivalent test in Tcl using its wish shell but, in this case, 
there's an even easier way.  The memory leak is easy to see if you use the 
badly out-of-date and seriously flawed system Tcl/Tk 8.5.x supplied by Apple in 
OS X releases since 10.6.  If tkinter is linked with an up-to-date Tcl/Tk, the 
leak should go away.  At least that's the case when using python3.5 from 
python.org 10.6+ installers and with ActiveTcl 8.5.18 installed.  See 
https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ for more info.

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resolution:  -> third party
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
versions:  -Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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