Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

Presumably this is caused by the fact that Popen.__del__() ressurects self by 
appending self to _active if the process is still alive.

On Windows this is unnecessary.  On Unix it would be more sensible to just 
append the *pid* to _active.

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