diff --git a/Lib/test/leakers/test_generator_cycle.py b/Lib/test/leakers/test_generator_cycle.py
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+
+# This leaks since the introduction of yield-expr and the use of generators
+# as coroutines, trunk revision 39239. The cycle-GC doesn't seem to pick up
+# the cycle, or decides it can't clean it up.
+
+def leak():
+    def gen():
+        while True:
+            yield g
+    g = gen()
+