[staticautomatic]

Get garbage collected by what? Doesn’t Python use reference counting?

[foresto]

The reference implementation (CPython) does use reference counting, but that is not its only approach to garbage collection.

"The default build implementation is a generational collector. The free-threaded build is non-generational; each collection scans the entire heap."

https://devguide.python.org/internals/garbage-collector/

https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html

(And as someone else pointed out, asyncio's event loop keeps only weak references to tasks, so the GC implementation doesn't really matter here.)

[d0mine]

asyncio doesn't store strong references to tasks. It is your responsibility to keep the ref: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio....

Consider organizing the code using TaskGroup.

[jph00]

Python has a GC.