Backported change from trunk:

Made SysLogHandler more resilient in the face of syslogd failures.

diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
index 35529501a7280d31afd37f2a398d2edaa24a4dd5..4ef896ed5d6cdbc24abaeb407ecf8c7f24cb04c5 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
@@ -586,11 +586,11 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
         self.address = address
         self.facility = facility
         if type(address) == types.StringType:
-            self._connect_unixsocket(address)
             self.unixsocket = 1
+            self._connect_unixsocket(address)
         else:
-            self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
             self.unixsocket = 0
+            self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
 
         self.formatter = None