[3.12] gh-101100: Improve docs on exception attributes (GH-113057) (#113061)

gh-101100: Improve docs on exception attributes (GH-113057)

(cherry picked from commit d05a180350fe20d5fde56c7e525e394a0b282703)

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
index f27e2bb..d511978 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -528,7 +528,8 @@ Querying the error indicator
 
    .. note::
 
-      This function *does not* implicitly set the ``__traceback__``
+      This function *does not* implicitly set the
+      :attr:`~BaseException.__traceback__`
       attribute on the exception value. If setting the traceback
       appropriately is desired, the following additional snippet is needed::
 
@@ -740,7 +741,8 @@ Exception Objects
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyException_GetTraceback(PyObject *ex)
 
    Return the traceback associated with the exception as a new reference, as
-   accessible from Python through :attr:`__traceback__`.  If there is no
+   accessible from Python through the :attr:`~BaseException.__traceback__`
+   attribute. If there is no
    traceback associated, this returns ``NULL``.
 
 
@@ -754,8 +756,8 @@ Exception Objects
 
    Return the context (another exception instance during whose handling *ex* was
    raised) associated with the exception as a new reference, as accessible from
-   Python through :attr:`__context__`.  If there is no context associated, this
-   returns ``NULL``.
+   Python through the :attr:`~BaseException.__context__` attribute.
+   If there is no context associated, this returns ``NULL``.
 
 
 .. c:function:: void PyException_SetContext(PyObject *ex, PyObject *ctx)
@@ -769,7 +771,8 @@ Exception Objects
 
    Return the cause (either an exception instance, or ``None``,
    set by ``raise ... from ...``) associated with the exception as a new
-   reference, as accessible from Python through :attr:`__cause__`.
+   reference, as accessible from Python through the
+   :attr:`~BaseException.__cause__` attribute.
 
 
 .. c:function:: void PyException_SetCause(PyObject *ex, PyObject *cause)
@@ -778,7 +781,8 @@ Exception Objects
    it.  There is no type check to make sure that *cause* is either an exception
    instance or ``None``.  This steals a reference to *cause*.
 
-   :attr:`__suppress_context__` is implicitly set to ``True`` by this function.
+   The :attr:`~BaseException.__suppress_context__` attribute is implicitly set
+   to ``True`` by this function.
 
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyException_GetArgs(PyObject *ex)