gh-108927: Fix removing testing modules from sys.modules

Lib/test/libregrtest/runtest.py

@@ -434,10 +434,6 @@ def regrtest_runner(result, test_func, ns) -> None:
 def _load_run_test(result: TestResult, ns: Namespace) -> None:
     # Load the test function, run the test function.
     module_name = abs_module_name(result.test_name, ns.testdir)
-
-    # Remove the module from sys.module to reload it if it was already imported
-    sys.modules.pop(module_name, None)
-
     test_mod = importlib.import_module(module_name)
 
     if hasattr(test_mod, "test_main"):

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-09-05-20-46-35.gh-issue-108927.TpwWav.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixed failure for tests running sequentially in the same process when
+test_importlib occurs between two other tests that use test_importlib.util.