[Python-checkins] [python/cpython] cc3331: bpo-29861: release references to multiprocessing P...

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  Branch: refs/heads/3.6
  Home:   https://github.com/python/cpython
  Commit: cc3331fec8b7a61c3f06c097eac85bfa38490758
      https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cc3331fec8b7a61c3f06c097eac85bfa38490758
  Author: Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>
  Date:   2017-03-24 (Fri, 24 Mar 2017)

  Changed paths:
    M Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
    M Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
    M Misc/NEWS

  Log Message:
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  bpo-29861: release references to multiprocessing Pool tasks (#743) (#800)

* bpo-29861: release references to multiprocessing Pool tasks (#743)

* bpo-29861: release references to multiprocessing Pool tasks

Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon
as they are finished, instead of keeping them alive until another task
arrives.

* Comments in test

(cherry picked from commit 8988945cdc27ffa86ba8c624e095b51c459f5154)

* Fix Misc/NEWS (hopefully)