From 689648ba32840bf82207548d5c0813b6d823b3ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Porritt <mattp@catalyst-au.net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:11:21 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fixing close method that is called as part of __del__. No
 longer throws error trying to call an attribute that will not exist if object
 fails during instantiation

---
 socketIO_client/__init__.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/socketIO_client/__init__.py b/socketIO_client/__init__.py
index dfe41e5..3d8d476 100644
--- a/socketIO_client/__init__.py
+++ b/socketIO_client/__init__.py
@@ -173,7 +173,10 @@ class EngineIO(LoggingMixin):
 
     def _close(self):
         self._wants_to_close = True
-        self._heartbeat_thread.halt()
+        try:
+            self._heartbeat_thread.halt()
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
         if not self._opened:
             return
         engineIO_packet_type = 1