Arcadiy Ivanov <arca...@ivanov.biz> added the comment:

> If sys.modules['_ast'] is cleared and then _ast is imported again, 
> _PyState_AddModule() is called to store the new _ast module instance which 
> calls astmodule_clear() on the old module instance.

I'm confused about this. In the repro below the sys.modules.clear() is indeed 
cleared, but references to all modules are retained. 

Where is the garbage collection/module re-initialization coming from? All of 
the references are live.

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