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TracebackException swallows attributes of falsey Exception and falsey ExceptionGroup. #132308

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Bug description:

Description

import traceback as tb

class FalseyLenException(Exception):
    def __len__(self):
        return 0

class FalseyBoolException(Exception):
    def __bool__(self):
        return False

def tracebackexception_swallows_cause_and_context():
    try:
        raise FalseyBoolException("Oh") from KeyError
    except Exception as e:
        print(f'{e = }, {e.__cause__ = }')
        tb.print_exception(e)
    print("---"*20)

    try:
        try:
            1/0
        except:
            raise FalseyLenException("Ah")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f'{e = }, {e.__context__ = }')
        tb.print_exception(e)
    print("---"*20)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    tracebackexception_swallows_cause_and_context()

Ouptput is:

e = FalseyBoolException('Oh'), e.__cause__ = KeyError()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/yves/Desktop/Bugs/gh-132XXX.py", line 13, in tracebackexception_swallows_cause_and_context
    raise FalseyBoolException("Oh") from KeyError
FalseyBoolException: Oh
------------------------------------------------------------
e = FalseyLenException('Ah'), e.__context__ = ZeroDivisionError('division by zero')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/yves/Desktop/Bugs/gh-132XXX.py", line 23, in tracebackexception_swallows_cause_and_context
    raise FalseyLenException("Ah")
FalseyLenException: Ah

The Cause or Context descriptions are not printed as expected.

Where Does it from ?

These following tests are wrong.

if (e and e.__cause__ is not None

It should be: if (e is not None and e.__cause__ is not None
if (e and e.__context__ is not None

It should be: if (e is not None and and e.__context__ is not None

Linked Issues

See: #132129

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

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