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  r74907 | eric.smith | 2009-09-18 09:23:13 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes. I used a slightly different patch than the one attached to the issue, to be consistent with the style in the rest of the module.
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Lib/ctypes/util.py

@@ -219,8 +219,12 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
             # XXX assuming GLIBC's ldconfig (with option -p)
             expr = r'(\S+)\s+\((%s(?:, OS ABI:[^\)]*)?)\)[^/]*(/[^\(\)\s]*lib%s\.[^\(\)\s]*)' \
                    % (abi_type, re.escape(name))
-            res = re.search(expr,
-                            os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null').read())
+            f = os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null')
+            try:
+                data = f.read()
+            finally:
+                f.close()
+            res = re.search(expr, data)
             if not res:
                 return None
             return res.group(1)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
+
 - Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
 
 - Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.