From 6d102f18cbcdcdf46e1f3a849a15fb12c2af56fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:20:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #13807: Now checks for sys.stderr being there before
 writing to it.

---
 Lib/logging/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/logging/__init__.py b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
index dad69aebca3..be775e8bb49 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ class Handler(Filterer):
         You could, however, replace this with a custom handler if you wish.
         The record which was being processed is passed in to this method.
         """
-        if raiseExceptions:
+        if raiseExceptions and sys.stderr:  # see issue 13807
             ei = sys.exc_info()
             try:
                 traceback.print_exception(ei[0], ei[1], ei[2],