From 1f66b00d5d50ffd7fb04ae8086c786e1b6609283 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:08:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #1339007: Shelf objects now don't raise an exception in
 their __del__ method when initialization failed.  (backport from rev. 46946)

---
 Lib/shelve.py | 3 +++
 Misc/NEWS     | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/shelve.py b/Lib/shelve.py
index 5e680bc3c68b..65e6cdbb6031 100644
--- a/Lib/shelve.py
+++ b/Lib/shelve.py
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ class Shelf(UserDict.DictMixin):
         self.dict = 0
 
     def __del__(self):
+        if not hasattr(self, 'writeback'):
+            # __init__ didn't succeed, so don't bother closing
+            return
         self.close()
 
     def sync(self):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 005255fdaa7c..691d20981f87 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1339007: Shelf objects now don't raise an exception in their
+  __del__ method when initialization failed.
+
 - Bug #1501223: Possible overflow in _PySys_Init() when reading the code page
   under Windows.
 
-- 
2.47.3