gh-111922: Allow Using a Minimal Proxy for TracebackException.exc_type #112324
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Passing a proxy for exc_type is helpful when the
TracebackException
is going to be serialized (e.g. pickle) and you don't want to serialize user-defined types.(That's the concrete motivation for me. For the
_xxsubinterpreters
module I'm propagating exceptions via a pickledTracebackException
and don't want to deal with unpickling a user-defined exception class in a different interpreter.)Note that most of this PR is tests, including a bunch of coverage of existing behavior.