[issue38780] SysLogHandler crash atexit

[Alan Robertson]

Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> added the comment:

There are a variety of different reasons this can fail, not just on MacOS. You could give it a bad IP address of a server, etc. [That was my particular case].

The constructor should create an attribute 'socket' and initialize it to None early on. Then, the close function in logging/handlers.py should check for None. Or alternatively, it shouldn't register the object with atexit until it's been constructed "well-enough".

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nosy: +alanr

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