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diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 6e0cf06..49137d4 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -775,7 +775,10 @@ class Popen(object):
self.wait()
def __del__(self, _maxsize=sys.maxsize, _active=_active):
- if not self._child_created:
+ # If __init__ hasn't had a chance to execute (e.g. if it
+ # was passed an undeclared keyword argument), we don't
+ # have a _child_created attribute at all.
+ if not getattr(self, '_child_created', False):
# We didn't get to successfully create a child process.
return
# In case the child hasn't been waited on, check if it's done.