The order of destruction of static objects, e.g. singletons is
arbitrary and can not be relied upon. For some versions of
Python, the singletons are destroyed after Python has shutdown.
When objects stored in the singletons have been created in Python,
a segfault is produced when they are destroyed, since the destructor
assumes a Python interpreter exists. To work around that, we register
atexit handlers to remove all references to Python objects. That's
required for the IOProfileRegistry and Conopology singletons.