--- /dev/null
+diff -up Python-2.7/Python/pythonrun.c.less-verbose-COUNT_ALLOCS Python-2.7/Python/pythonrun.c
+--- Python-2.7/Python/pythonrun.c.less-verbose-COUNT_ALLOCS 2010-08-17 14:49:33.321913909 -0400
++++ Python-2.7/Python/pythonrun.c 2010-08-17 14:54:48.750910403 -0400
+@@ -470,7 +470,15 @@ Py_Finalize(void)
+
+ /* Debugging stuff */
+ #ifdef COUNT_ALLOCS
+- dump_counts(stdout);
++ /* This is a downstream Fedora modification.
++ The upstream default with COUNT_ALLOCS is to always dump the counts to
++ stdout on exit. For our debug builds its useful to have the info from
++ COUNT_ALLOCS available, but the stdout info here gets in the way, so
++ we make it optional, wrapping it in an environment variable (modelled
++ on the other PYTHONDUMP* env variables):
++ */
++ if (Py_GETENV("PYTHONDUMPCOUNTS"))
++ dump_counts(stdout);
+ #endif
+
+ PRINT_TOTAL_REFS();