To reproduce:

(1) build python: `../configure --prefix=$HOME/prefix --with-pydebug --without-pymalloc && make install`

(2) run with valgrind: `valgrind --leak-check=full ~/prefix/bin/python3`

(3) exit immediately from the interpreter by pressing ^D

(4) Note the following output from Valgrind:

```
==3810071== 40 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 3 of 527
==3810071==    at 0x4C28B5F: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
==3810071==    by 0x59ED58: growable_int_array_init (parsetok.c:27)
==3810071==    by 0x59EE14: parsetok (parsetok.c:235)
==3810071==    by 0x59F697: PyParser_ParseFileObject (parsetok.c:176)
==3810071==    by 0x522E85: PyParser_ASTFromFileObject (pythonrun.c:1224)
==3810071==    by 0x5231E9: PyRun_InteractiveOneObjectEx (pythonrun.c:238)
==3810071==    by 0x5234D0: PyRun_InteractiveLoopFlags (pythonrun.c:120)
==3810071==    by 0x523BF2: PyRun_AnyFileExFlags (pythonrun.c:78)
==3810071==    by 0x4204FE: pymain_run_stdin (main.c:1185)
==3810071==    by 0x42126B: pymain_run_python (main.c:1675)
==3810071==    by 0x422EE0: pymain_main (main.c:1820)
==3810071==    by 0x422F75: _Py_UnixMain (main.c:1857)
```

Reproduced on git commit hash 522346d792d9013140a3f4ad3534ac10f38d9085 .

Thanks for the report!

I think I see a path through the code that doesn't free the memory.

Does this patch fix it?

diff --git a/Parser/parsetok.c b/Parser/parsetok.c
index 1fa4a1286b..6a96f6bc5a 100644
--- a/Parser/parsetok.c
+++ b/Parser/parsetok.c
@@ -370,7 +370,6 @@ parsetok(struct tok_state *tok, grammar *g, int start, perrdetail *err_ret,
                                 type_ignores.items[i], 0);
             }
         }
-        growable_int_array_deallocate(&type_ignores);
 
 #ifndef PGEN
         /* Check that the source for a single input statement really
@@ -405,6 +404,8 @@ parsetok(struct tok_state *tok, grammar *g, int start, perrdetail *err_ret,
     else
         n = NULL;
 
+    growable_int_array_deallocate(&type_ignores);
+
 #ifdef PY_PARSER_REQUIRES_FUTURE_KEYWORD
     *flags = ps->p_flags;
 #endif

Hi Guido,

I have tried applying your patch. It seems to fix the issue (Valgrind no longer reports memory definitely lost).

Fixed by b9d2e97601847a1845bf96e2895a6214f02b92a6 (GH-11832).