changeset:   93819:aeeec8a4b9b8
branch:      2.7
parent:      93816:e0129395724d
user:        Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
date:        Wed Dec 10 23:05:33 2014 +0200
files:       Lib/test/test_warnings.py Lib/warnings.py Misc/NEWS
description:
Issue #23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when sys.stderr
is None.


diff -r e0129395724d -r aeeec8a4b9b8 Lib/test/test_warnings.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_warnings.py	Wed Dec 10 11:57:12 2014 -0500
+++ b/Lib/test/test_warnings.py	Wed Dec 10 23:05:33 2014 +0200
@@ -560,6 +560,15 @@
         finally:
             globals_dict['__file__'] = oldfile
 
+    def test_stderr_none(self):
+        rc, stdout, stderr = assert_python_ok("-c",
+            "import sys; sys.stderr = None; "
+            "import warnings; warnings.simplefilter('always'); "
+            "warnings.warn('Warning!')")
+        self.assertEqual(stdout, b'')
+        self.assertNotIn(b'Warning!', stderr)
+        self.assertNotIn(b'Error', stderr)
+
 
 class WarningsDisplayTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff -r e0129395724d -r aeeec8a4b9b8 Lib/warnings.py
--- a/Lib/warnings.py	Wed Dec 10 11:57:12 2014 -0500
+++ b/Lib/warnings.py	Wed Dec 10 23:05:33 2014 +0200
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
     """Hook to write a warning to a file; replace if you like."""
     if file is None:
         file = sys.stderr
+        if file is None:
+            # sys.stderr is None - warnings get lost
+            return
     try:
         file.write(formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, line))
     except IOError:
diff -r e0129395724d -r aeeec8a4b9b8 Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Wed Dec 10 11:57:12 2014 -0500
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Wed Dec 10 23:05:33 2014 +0200
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when sys.stderr
+  is None.
+
 - Issue #14099: ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file.  Objects
   returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even
   if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first