From d99e85b9f6422dd5e4f2eb1539368fc4003d4c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:54:34 -0700
Subject: [3.6] bpo-31234, socket.create_connection(): Fix ref cycle (GH-3546)
 (#3552)

(cherry picked from commit acb9fa79fa6453c2bbe3ccfc9cad2837feb90093)
---
 Lib/socket.py                                                     | 2 ++
 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-13-18-05-56.bpo-31234.lGkcPg.rst | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-13-18-05-56.bpo-31234.lGkcPg.rst

diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index 740e717..1ada24d 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -711,6 +711,8 @@ def create_connection(address, timeout=_GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
             if source_address:
                 sock.bind(source_address)
             sock.connect(sa)
+            # Break explicitly a reference cycle
+            err = None
             return sock
 
         except error as _:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-13-18-05-56.bpo-31234.lGkcPg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-13-18-05-56.bpo-31234.lGkcPg.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e522e8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-13-18-05-56.bpo-31234.lGkcPg.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+socket.create_connection() now fixes manually a reference cycle: clear the
+variable storing the last exception on success.
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