From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:26:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@darwin.cwru.edu>:
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b2~392
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16c4aa441bba65ac0e4386e4b04d25119e8fc609;p=python

Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@darwin.cwru.edu>:
The posixfile __del__ method attempts to close the file (_file_) it
contains. However, if the open() method fails, then _file_ is never
assigned.

This closes SourceForge bug #113850.
---

diff --git a/Lib/posixfile.py b/Lib/posixfile.py
index d358dc4ab7..18f72fd0e5 100644
--- a/Lib/posixfile.py
+++ b/Lib/posixfile.py
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ class _posixfile_:
                  hex(id(self))[2:])
 
     def __del__(self):
-        self._file_.close()
+        if hasattr(self, "_file_"):
+            self._file_.close()
 
     #
     # Initialization routines