pythongh-102799: remove unnecessary calls to sys.exc_info() in tests (python#102800)

Author: iritkatriel

Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_unix_events.py

@@ -1889,8 +1889,8 @@ async def test_fork_not_share_event_loop(self):
                 os.write(w, b'LOOP:' + str(id(loop)).encode())
             except RuntimeError:
                 os.write(w, b'NO LOOP')
-            except:
-                os.write(w, b'ERROR:' + ascii(sys.exc_info()).encode())
+            except BaseException as e:
+                os.write(w, b'ERROR:' + ascii(e).encode())
             finally:
                 os._exit(0)
         else:

Lib/test/test_exceptions.py

@@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ def test_notes(self):
     def testWithTraceback(self):
         try:
             raise IndexError(4)
-        except:
-            tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
+        except Exception as e:
+            tb = e.__traceback__
 
         e = BaseException().with_traceback(tb)
         self.assertIsInstance(e, BaseException)
@@ -653,8 +653,8 @@ def test_invalid_delattr(self):
     def testNoneClearsTracebackAttr(self):
         try:
             raise IndexError(4)
-        except:
-            tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
+        except Exception as e:
+            tb = e.__traceback__
 
         e = Exception()
         e.__traceback__ = tb
@@ -1337,11 +1337,11 @@ class MyException(Exception, metaclass=Meta):
         def g():
             try:
                 return g()
-            except RecursionError:
-                return sys.exc_info()
-        e, v, tb = g()
-        self.assertIsInstance(v, RecursionError, type(v))
-        self.assertIn("maximum recursion depth exceeded", str(v))
+            except RecursionError as e:
+                return e
+        exc = g()
+        self.assertIsInstance(exc, RecursionError, type(exc))
+        self.assertIn("maximum recursion depth exceeded", str(exc))
 
 
     @cpython_only

Lib/test/test_socket.py

@@ -5492,10 +5492,10 @@ def alarm_handler(signal, frame):
                 self.fail("caught timeout instead of Alarm")
             except Alarm:
                 pass
-            except:
+            except BaseException as e:
                 self.fail("caught other exception instead of Alarm:"
                           " %s(%s):\n%s" %
-                          (sys.exc_info()[:2] + (traceback.format_exc(),)))
+                          (type(e), e, traceback.format_exc()))
             else:
                 self.fail("nothing caught")
             finally:

Lib/test/test_sys.py

@@ -1649,8 +1649,8 @@ def test_pythontypes(self):
         check(_ast.AST(), size('P'))
         try:
             raise TypeError
-        except TypeError:
-            tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
+        except TypeError as e:
+            tb = e.__traceback__
             # traceback
             if tb is not None:
                 check(tb, size('2P2i'))