Patch by Jeremy Katz (SF #1609407)

diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
index 70bd5d4faecfc44875020f44a9e68e3605783a55..1024fc3c2976a1d15d31725c3858a876c6a54b71 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
@@ -574,11 +574,11 @@ 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