diff --git a/Misc/README.valgrind b/Misc/README.valgrind
index 8e480e9..157bdc3 100644
--- a/Misc/README.valgrind
+++ b/Misc/README.valgrind
@@ -12,6 +12,19 @@
   * Uncomment the lines in Misc/valgrind-python.supp that
     suppress the warnings for PyObject_Free and PyObject_Realloc
 
+If you want to use Valgrind more effectively and catch even more
+memory leaks, you will need to configure python --without-pymalloc.
+PyMalloc allocates a few blocks in big chunks and most object
+allocations don't call malloc, they use chunks doled about by PyMalloc
+from the big blocks.  This means Valgrind can't detect
+many allocations (and frees), except for those that are forwarded
+to the system malloc.  Note: configuring python --without-pymalloc
+makes Python run much slower, especially when running under Valgrind.
+You may need to run the tests in batches under Valgrind to keep
+the memory usage down to allow the tests to complete.  It seems to take
+about 5 times longer to run --without-pymalloc.
+
+
 Details:
 --------
 Python uses its own small-object allocation scheme on top of malloc,
@@ -21,7 +34,8 @@
 Starting with Python 2.3, PyMalloc is used by default.  You can disable
 PyMalloc when configuring python by adding the --without-pymalloc option.
 If you disable PyMalloc, most of the information in this document and
-the supplied suppressions file will not be useful.
+the supplied suppressions file will not be useful.  As discussed above,
+disabling PyMalloc can catch more problems.
 
 If you use valgrind on a default build of Python,  you will see
 many errors like:
diff --git a/Python/ast.c b/Python/ast.c
index 87a9a4b..731bf9a 100644
--- a/Python/ast.c
+++ b/Python/ast.c
@@ -1054,8 +1054,12 @@
             return NULL;
         }
 
-	if (asdl_seq_LEN(t) == 1)
+	if (asdl_seq_LEN(t) == 1) {
 	    lc = comprehension(asdl_seq_GET(t, 0), expression, NULL);
+	    /* only free the sequence since we grabbed element 0 above */
+	    if (lc)
+	        asdl_seq_free(t); /* ok */
+	}
 	else
 	    lc = comprehension(Tuple(t, Store, LINENO(ch)), expression, NULL);
 
@@ -1222,9 +1226,13 @@
             return NULL;
         }
         
-        if (asdl_seq_LEN(t) == 1)
+        if (asdl_seq_LEN(t) == 1) {
             ge = comprehension(asdl_seq_GET(t, 0), expression,
                                NULL);
+	    /* only free the sequence since we grabbed element 0 above */
+	    if (ge)
+	        asdl_seq_free(t); /* ok */
+	}
         else
             ge = comprehension(Tuple(t, Store, LINENO(ch)),
                                expression, NULL);
diff --git a/Python/compile.c b/Python/compile.c
index 4d637ae..5905c45 100644
--- a/Python/compile.c
+++ b/Python/compile.c
@@ -2384,7 +2384,10 @@
 			dot = strchr(src, '.');
 			attr = PyString_FromStringAndSize(src, 
 					    dot ? dot - src : strlen(src));
+			if (!attr)
+				return -1;
 			ADDOP_O(c, LOAD_ATTR, attr, names);
+			Py_DECREF(attr);
 			src = dot + 1;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/Python/modsupport.c b/Python/modsupport.c
index 197d99b..fbfb48d 100644
--- a/Python/modsupport.c
+++ b/Python/modsupport.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
 			}
 			Py_DECREF(v);
 		}
+		Py_DECREF(n);
 	}
 	if (doc != NULL) {
 		v = PyString_FromString(doc);