[Python-Dev] Re: How to enable tracemalloc for the test suite?

For posterity, just recording best guesses for the other mysteries left hanging: - PYTHONTRACEMALLOC didn't work for you because Victor's traceback showed that Py_FinalizeEx was executing _PyImport_Fini,, one statement _after_ it disabled tracemalloc via _PyTraceMalloc_Fini. - The address passed to free() was for the struct representing the False singleton, which is static Since it wasn't obtained from a malloc/realloc call to begin with, the free() debug code didn't find anything it expected to find. As noted earlier, if tracemalloc had still been active, it wouldn't have found that address in its database, and so would have produced no output at all. So - that was easy ;-)