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I just ran into a bug in which the testcrypt child process was cleanly terminated, but at least one Python object was left lying around containing the identifier of a testcrypt object that had never been freed. On program exit, the Python reference count on that object went to zero, the __del__ method was invoked, and childprocess.funcall started a _new_ instance of testcrypt just so it could tell it to free the object identifier - which, of course, the new testcrypt had never heard of! We can already tell the difference between a ChildProcess object which has no subprocess because it hasn't yet been started, and one which has no subprocess because it's terminated: the latter has exitstatus set to something other than None. So now we enforce by assertion that we don't ever restart the child process, and the __del__ method avoids doing anything if the child has already finished.