green.socket: create_connection: UnboundLocalError on Python3gh-123-local-msg

Fixes https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/issues/123

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/eventlet/green/socket.py b/eventlet/green/socket.py
index 42ad638..2ec9d1b 100644
--- a/eventlet/green/socket.py
+++ b/eventlet/green/socket.py
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ def create_connection(address,
             sock.connect(sa)
             return sock
 
-        except error as msg:
+        except error as e:
+            msg = e
             if sock is not None:
                 sock.close()
 
diff --git a/tests/socket_test.py b/tests/socket_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60881f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/socket_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from eventlet.green import socket
+
+
+def test_create_connection_error():
+    try:
+        socket.create_connection(('192.0.2.1', 80), timeout=0.1)
+    except (IOError, OSError):
+        pass