> urlcleanup also sets the global variable _opener to None so it does the extra work of uninstalling the global variable opener set by install_opener which is also not documented.
Oh wait, urlopen() also sets this private _opener global variable and so has an effect on next calls to urlopen()... This API is really strange, I dislike it :-(
I modified my PR 14529 to call urlcleanup() is way more tests, but I also modified regrtest to test that urllib.requests._url_tempfiles and urllib.requests._opener are not modified.