Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Here's my understanding: the test is testing that a an object ref only held 
> in the traceback object of the exception is cleaned up such that it can be 
> collected

The best way to check would be to revert the case.py changes in 6ab3193e890e. 
My intuition is that the test would then fail, but succeed with your changes.

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