gh-101578: Amend exception docs (#102057)

Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <[email protected]>

Author: erlend-aasland

Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst

@@ -438,7 +438,9 @@ Querying the error indicator
 
 .. c:function:: void PyErr_Fetch(PyObject **ptype, PyObject **pvalue, PyObject **ptraceback)
 
-    As of 3.12, this function is deprecated. Use :c:func:`PyErr_GetRaisedException` instead.
+   .. deprecated:: 3.12
+
+      Use :c:func:`PyErr_GetRaisedException` instead.
 
    Retrieve the error indicator into three variables whose addresses are passed.
    If the error indicator is not set, set all three variables to ``NULL``.  If it is
@@ -447,8 +449,10 @@ Querying the error indicator
 
    .. note::
 
-      This function is normally only used by code that needs to catch exceptions or
-      by code that needs to save and restore the error indicator temporarily, e.g.::
+      This function is normally only used by legacy code that needs to catch
+      exceptions or save and restore the error indicator temporarily.
+
+      For example::
 
          {
             PyObject *type, *value, *traceback;
@@ -459,15 +463,17 @@ Querying the error indicator
             PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
          }
 
-   .. deprecated:: 3.12
-
 
 .. c:function:: void PyErr_Restore(PyObject *type, PyObject *value, PyObject *traceback)
 
-    As of 3.12, this function is deprecated. Use :c:func:`PyErr_SetRaisedException` instead.
+   .. deprecated:: 3.12
+
+      Use :c:func:`PyErr_SetRaisedException` instead.
 
-   Set the error indicator from the three objects.  If the error indicator is
-   already set, it is cleared first.  If the objects are ``NULL``, the error
+   Set the error indicator from the three objects,
+   *type*, *value*, and *traceback*,
+   clearing the existing exception if one is set.
+   If the objects are ``NULL``, the error
    indicator is cleared.  Do not pass a ``NULL`` type and non-``NULL`` value or
    traceback.  The exception type should be a class.  Do not pass an invalid
    exception type or value. (Violating these rules will cause subtle problems
@@ -478,18 +484,17 @@ Querying the error indicator
 
    .. note::
 
-      This function is normally only used by code that needs to save and restore the
-      error indicator temporarily.  Use :c:func:`PyErr_Fetch` to save the current
-      error indicator.
-
-   .. deprecated:: 3.12
+      This function is normally only used by legacy code that needs to
+      save and restore the error indicator temporarily.
+      Use :c:func:`PyErr_Fetch` to save the current error indicator.
 
 
 .. c:function:: void PyErr_NormalizeException(PyObject **exc, PyObject **val, PyObject **tb)
 
-   As of 3.12, this function is deprecated.
-   Use :c:func:`PyErr_GetRaisedException` instead of :c:func:`PyErr_Fetch` to avoid
-   any possible de-normalization.
+   .. deprecated:: 3.12
+
+      Use :c:func:`PyErr_GetRaisedException` instead,
+      to avoid any possible de-normalization.
 
    Under certain circumstances, the values returned by :c:func:`PyErr_Fetch` below
    can be "unnormalized", meaning that ``*exc`` is a class object but ``*val`` is
@@ -507,8 +512,6 @@ Querying the error indicator
            PyException_SetTraceback(val, tb);
          }
 
-   .. deprecated:: 3.12
-
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyErr_GetHandledException(void)
 
@@ -756,14 +759,12 @@ Exception Objects
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyException_GetArgs(PyObject *ex)
 
-   Return args of the given exception as a new reference,
-   as accessible from Python through :attr:`args`.
+   Return :attr:`~BaseException.args` of exception *ex*.
 
 
 .. c:function:: void PyException_SetArgs(PyObject *ex, PyObject *args)
 
-   Set the args of the given exception,
-   as accessible from Python through :attr:`args`.
+   Set :attr:`~BaseException.args` of exception *ex* to *args*.
 
 
 .. _unicodeexceptions:

Doc/data/refcounts.dat

@@ -839,6 +839,8 @@ PyEval_EvalFrameEx:int:throwflag::
 PyEval_MergeCompilerFlags:int:::
 PyEval_MergeCompilerFlags:PyCompilerFlags*:cf::
 
+PyException_GetArgs:PyObject*::+1:
+
 PyException_GetCause:PyObject*::+1:
 PyException_GetCause:PyObject*:ex:0: