Message 352508 - Python tracker
Upon digging through Modules/_xxsubinterpretersmodule.c, I noticed that on line 2059, `PyInterpreterState_Delete(interp);` is commented out (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/bf169915ecdd42329726104278eb723a7dda2736/Modules/_xxsubinterpretersmodule.c#L2059). This was done when _xxsubinterpretersmodule.c was first added by Eric Snow (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/bf169915ecdd42329726104278eb723a7dda2736/Modules/_xxsubinterpretersmodule.c#L2059), so it seems to have been done intentionally but I don't understand why. Is this because `Py_EndInterpreter()` is supposed to shutdown the interpreter, so `PyInterpreterState_Delete()` isn't needed? If so, that still doesn't particularly explain why it was commented out. Perhaps Eric can elaborate.