There are multiple places in the standard library where the code captures an exception and reraises it later (outside of the original except). This is known to cause a cycle as saving the exception has a traceback that eventually points back to the exception, but it is especially problematic as it keeps alive the objects that the user has as well. This can be reproduced with the following example: ``` import weakref class A: pass ref = None def x(): global ref cool_var = A() ref = weakref.ref(cool_var) assert ref() try: 1/0 except Exception as e: ee = e try: x() except Exception: pass print(ref()) assert ref() is None ``` There are places in the standard library that try to get around this. See https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/acb9fa79fa6453c2bbe3ccfc9cad2837feb90093 as an example. This change did not include the exception path though, when the `err` variable is raised, the issue is still present. This issue is to fix the instances found in socket.py, codeop.py and dyld.py. By either setting the variable to None to remove the name or if it needs to be reraised by using a finally to delete it. This is basically the same that a try except would do, which automagically adds a finally to delete the local name used in the `except X as y`. There was a discussion with twouters,pablogsal,barry about potentially adding something extra to the exception handling to try to clean this up but it was suggested the best approach is for the user to handle it and maybe a linter to potentially flag it, as there might also be multiple references to the exception being captured. It was also proposed to just change the situations where this happens in the standard library to remove the name if possible. Note that eventually those objects will just be collected by the gc, it is just an improvement. I'm preparing a PR for those three modules.

 New changeset b64334cb93d0ddbb551c8cd712942bab2fc72772 by Miss Islington (bot) (Mario Corchero) in branch 'master': bpo-36820: Break unnecessary cycle in socket.py, codeop.py and dyld.py (GH-13135) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b64334cb93d0ddbb551c8cd712942bab2fc72772 

 New changeset 681285d052977e3a3a82ef665e788946fca1ac59 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-36820: Break unnecessary cycle in socket.py, codeop.py and dyld.py (GH-13135) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/681285d052977e3a3a82ef665e788946fca1ac59 

 New changeset 5ba591fa2c1f74c4a84372fb4ffc0b16863f1ad7 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-36820: Break unnecessary cycle in socket.py, codeop.py and dyld.py (GH-13135) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5ba591fa2c1f74c4a84372fb4ffc0b16863f1ad7