From 7e7a3dba5fd4262269f713dfe21ba7e4746fc2dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:24:41 +0300
Subject: Issue #23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent
 and more robust at shutdown. If needs to release multiple resources, they are
 released even if errors are occured.

---
 Lib/telnetlib.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Lib/telnetlib.py')

diff --git a/Lib/telnetlib.py b/Lib/telnetlib.py
index 0cacac85fa..51738f0d12 100644
--- a/Lib/telnetlib.py
+++ b/Lib/telnetlib.py
@@ -264,12 +264,13 @@ class Telnet:
 
     def close(self):
         """Close the connection."""
-        if self.sock:
-            self.sock.close()
+        sock = self.sock
         self.sock = 0
         self.eof = 1
         self.iacseq = b''
         self.sb = 0
+        if sock:
+            sock.close()
 
     def get_socket(self):
         """Return the socket object used internally."""
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