commit e298c3018cf5613aa3d8af4a5cc5652f1659f12b
author Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> Mon May 08 16:59:59 2000 +0000
committer Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> Mon May 08 16:59:59 2000 +0000
tree f0556d1430da984e3def128cb71f0a3435567db7
parent c554505ca1318fd7aed32086ceb4b53ae767ffa3

if the GzipFile constructor fails, the __del__ method is still
called.  catch the resulting AttributeError and exit cleanly.

Lib/gzip.py

diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index 25278be..43501d4 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -253,9 +253,13 @@
             self.myfileobj = None
 
     def __del__(self):
-        if (self.myfileobj is not None or
-            self.fileobj is not None):
-            self.close()
+        try:
+            if (self.myfileobj is None and
+                self.fileobj is None):
+                return
+        except AttributeError:
+            return
+        self.close()
         
     def flush(self):
         self.fileobj.flush()