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I don't know whether this is a bug, but my exhaustive search led me to "Python can't really unload modules" from every direction, which I find hard to believe, I don't know where else to go with this.
The problem:
 import gc, sys
 print len(gc.get_objects()) # 4073
 # starting with 4073 objects in memory
 import httplib
 del sys.modules["httplib"]
 del httplib
 # httplib should be unloaded 
 # and garbage collected as it is unreachable
 gc.collect()
 print len(gc.get_objects()) # 6745 
 # 6745 objects in memory (2000+ stray objects)
This applies to almost any module. 
Is this a bug or somehow correctable?