From: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:38:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: gh-101578: mention in what's new in 3.12 that exceptions are now normalized before... 
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gh-101578: mention in what's new in 3.12 that exceptions are now normalized before stored (#102702)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index 9f33dbc808dd..217ffec1ee10 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -982,6 +982,11 @@ Porting to Python 3.12
   effects, these side effects are no longer duplicated.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`98724`.)
 
+* The interpreter's error indicator is now always normalized. This means
+  that :c:func:`PyErr_SetObject`, :c:func:`PyErr_SetString` and the other
+  functions that set the error indicator now normalize the exception
+  before storing it. (Contributed by Mark Shannon in :gh:`101578`.)
+
 Deprecated
 ----------