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.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/text_file.py b/Lib/distutils/text_file.py
index 40b8484..478336f 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/text_file.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/text_file.py
@@ -118,10 +118,11 @@ class TextFile:
     def close(self):
         """Close the current file and forget everything we know about it
            (filename, current line number)."""
-        self.file.close()
+        file = self.file
         self.file = None
         self.filename = None
         self.current_line = None
+        file.close()
 
     def gen_error(self, msg, line=None):
         outmsg = []