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.

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

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ C-API
 Library
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+- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
+
 - Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
 
 - Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().