From 87b9bc3893bac402bd773a83ee6734507f978607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:57:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Close #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen
 destructor if the constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared
 keyword argument. Patch written by Oleg Oshmyan.

---
 Lib/subprocess.py           |  5 ++++-
 Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 10 ++++++++++
 Misc/ACKS                   |  1 +
 Misc/NEWS                   |  4 ++++
 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 28dd691090d..4bcf159864f 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -768,7 +768,10 @@ class Popen(object):
         self.wait()
 
     def __del__(self, _maxsize=sys.maxsize, _active=_active):
-        if not self._child_created:
+        # If __init__ hasn't had a chance to execute (e.g. if it
+        # was passed an undeclared keyword argument), we don't
+        # have a _child_created attribute at all.
+        if not getattr(self, '_child_created', False):
             # We didn't get to successfully create a child process.
             return
         # In case the child hasn't been waited on, check if it's done.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index ad89864f2e3..9d6665998e4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
                              env=newenv)
         self.assertEqual(rc, 1)
 
+    def test_invalid_args(self):
+        # Popen() called with invalid arguments should raise TypeError
+        # but Popen.__del__ should not complain (issue #12085)
+        with support.captured_stderr() as s:
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, subprocess.Popen, invalid_arg_name=1)
+            argcount = subprocess.Popen.__init__.__code__.co_argcount
+            too_many_args = [0] * (argcount + 1)
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, subprocess.Popen, *too_many_args)
+        self.assertEqual(s.getvalue(), '')
+
     def test_stdin_none(self):
         # .stdin is None when not redirected
         p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", 'print("banana")'],
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index d0e32e17783..aa077fca609 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ Piet van Oostrum
 Jason Orendorff
 Douglas Orr
 Michele Orrù
+Oleg Oshmyan
 Denis S. Otkidach
 Michael Otteneder
 R. M. Oudkerk
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4ab11a517dc..3703ac5bd76 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
+  constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
+  written by Oleg Oshmyan.
+
 - Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
   Patch by Mher Movsisyan.