diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRAttributes.cpp b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRAttributes.cpp
index 8f79caf08a6d0..fad7d2ad25db0 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRAttributes.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRAttributes.cpp
@@ -1428,6 +1428,16 @@ class PyDenseIntElementsAttribute
   }
 };
 
+static bool pythonIsFinalizing() {
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x030d0000
+  return Py_IsFinalizing();
+#elif PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03070000
+  return _Py_IsFinalizing();
+#else
+  return _Py_Finalizing != nullptr;
+#endif
+}
+
 class PyDenseResourceElementsAttribute
     : public PyConcreteAttribute<PyDenseResourceElementsAttribute> {
 public:
@@ -1474,7 +1484,7 @@ class PyDenseResourceElementsAttribute
     // The userData is a Py_buffer* that the deleter owns.
     auto deleter = [](void *userData, const void *data, size_t size,
                       size_t align) {
-      if (!Py_IsInitialized())
+      if (!(Py_IsInitialized() || pythonIsFinalizing()))
         Py_Initialize();
       Py_buffer *ownedView = static_cast<Py_buffer *>(userData);
       nb::gil_scoped_acquire gil;
diff --git a/mlir/test/python/ir/array_attributes.py b/mlir/test/python/ir/array_attributes.py
index ef1d835fc6401..48ae2fdaf567f 100644
--- a/mlir/test/python/ir/array_attributes.py
+++ b/mlir/test/python/ir/array_attributes.py
@@ -617,3 +617,16 @@ def test_attribute(context, mview):
     # CHECK: BACKING MEMORY DELETED
     # CHECK: EXIT FUNCTION
     print("EXIT FUNCTION")
+
+
+print("TEST: danglingResource")
+# This error occurs only when there is an alive context with a DenseResourceElementsAttr 
+# in the end of the program, so we put it here without an encapsulating function.
+ctx = Context()
+
+with ctx, Location.unknown():
+    DenseResourceElementsAttr.get_from_buffer(
+        memoryview(np.array([1,2,3])),
+        "some_resource",
+        RankedTensorType.get((3,), IntegerType.get_signed(32))
+    )