From 65f8cedd4a9820e5d069ece0194b7da0b1e4e33c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:36:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index 9598f99fc5f..b95c372da5f 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -232,7 +232,11 @@ class _fileobject(object):
             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: