[3.14] gh-136523: Fix wave.Wave_write emitting an unraisable when open raises (GH-136529)

Lib/test/test_wave.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from test import audiotests
 from test import support
 import io
+import os
 import struct
 import sys
 import wave
@@ -222,6 +223,14 @@ def test_read_wrong_sample_width(self):
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(wave.Error, 'bad sample width'):
             wave.open(io.BytesIO(b))
 
+    def test_open_in_write_raises(self):
+        # gh-136523: Wave_write.__del__ should not throw
+        with support.catch_unraisable_exception() as cm:
+            with self.assertRaises(OSError):
+                wave.open(os.curdir, "wb")
+            support.gc_collect()
+            self.assertIsNone(cm.unraisable)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

Lib/wave.py

@@ -441,6 +441,8 @@ class Wave_write:
     _datawritten -- the size of the audio samples actually written
     """
 
+    _file = None
+
     def __init__(self, f):
         self._i_opened_the_file = None
         if isinstance(f, str):

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-07-11-03-39-15.gh-issue-136523.s7caKL.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix :class:`wave.Wave_write` emitting an unraisable when open raises.