From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:53:54 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: [3.12] gh-118042: Fix error in Telnet.__del__ when __init__() was not called (GH... 
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X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e3bd342f39d9904ee48065446562db3f1d66e61;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

[3.12] gh-118042: Fix error in Telnet.__del__ when __init__() was not called (GH-118274)
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diff --git a/Lib/telnetlib.py b/Lib/telnetlib.py
index 62d636129853..af44494e7e87 100644
--- a/Lib/telnetlib.py
+++ b/Lib/telnetlib.py
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ class Telnet:
         No other action is done afterwards by telnetlib.
 
     """
+    sock = None  # for __del__()
 
     def __init__(self, host=None, port=0,
                  timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-04-25-12-02-06.gh-issue-118042.2EcdHf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-04-25-12-02-06.gh-issue-118042.2EcdHf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7337aae0981e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-04-25-12-02-06.gh-issue-118042.2EcdHf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix an unraisable exception in :meth:`telnetlib.Telnet.__del__` when the
+``__init__()`` method was not called.