commit 65f8cedd4a9820e5d069ece0194b7da0b1e4e33c
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Thu May 29 14:36:57 2003 +0000
committer Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Thu May 29 14:36:57 2003 +0000
tree 007ee4a343cb28ccfe79f026a0821a13c77ca55e
parent bb1861a996f659621a3d9de875027679ce1926eb

I saw errors from _fileobject.__del__ about missing self._sock.  This
can happen if __init__ doesn't complete.  Fix it by adding a
try/except to __del__.

Lib/socket.py

diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index 9598f99..b95c372 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -232,7 +232,11 @@
             self._sock = None
 
     def __del__(self):
-        self.close()
+        try:
+            self.close()
+        except:
+            # close() may fail if __init__ didn't complete
+            pass
 
     def flush(self):
         if self._wbuf: