Oops, the last output was actually another set of zombie processes from a second test (for verification). For completeness, the output should have been:
$ ps aux | grep Z
ubuntu 31700 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/12 Z+ 02:59 0:00 [python] <defunct> ubuntu 31701 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/12 Z+ 02:59 0:00 [python] <defunct>
Oops, the last output was actually another set of zombie processes from a second test (for verification). For completeness, the output should have been:
$ ps aux | grep Z
ubuntu 31700 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/12 Z+ 02:59 0:00 [python] <defunct>
ubuntu 31701 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/12 Z+ 02:59 0:00 [python] <defunct>