Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero.

Thanks to Eugene Toder for diagnosing and reporting the issue.

Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero.

Thanks to Eugene Toder for diagnosing and reporting the issue.

Patch by Steven Kryskalla.

Patch by Steven Kryskalla.

- not allowed when implicitly re-raised the current exception
- last exception raised is always displayed last
- attempt to make it clearer when/if cause and context are shown

Update comment: SAVE_EXC_STATE and SWAP_EXC_STATE macroses are saave_exc_state and swap_exc_state functions now.

Patch by Ilya Sandler.

Patch by Ilya Sandler.

encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
(which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.

encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
(which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.