diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index f47a763f35b..ca6c47f08d1 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ def get_terminal_size(fallback=(80, 24)):
     if columns <= 0 or lines <= 0:
         try:
             size = os.get_terminal_size(sys.__stdout__.fileno())
-        except (NameError, OSError):
+        except (AttributeError, OSError):
             size = os.terminal_size(fallback)
         if columns <= 0:
             columns = size.columns
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
index ca1d0067634..7e41891e5ee 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
@@ -1837,6 +1837,8 @@ class TermsizeTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(size.lines, 888)
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(os.isatty(sys.__stdout__.fileno()), "not on tty")
+    @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, 'get_terminal_size'),
+                         'need os.get_terminal_size()')
     def test_stty_match(self):
         """Check if stty returns the same results ignoring env
 
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index c8e3cc5fcd7..615c473b782 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ Matthew Barnett
 Richard Barran
 Cesar Eduardo Barros
 Des Barry
+Emanuel Barry
 Ulf Bartelt
 Campbell Barton
 Don Bashford
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 473fb370f19..fba505f0e17 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #26801: Fix error handling in :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size`, catch
+  :exc:`AttributeError` instead of :exc:`NameError`. Patch written by Emanuel
+  Barry.
+
 - Issue #24838: tarfile's ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name
   and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8.