bpo-1230540: Add threading.excepthook() (GH-13515)

Add a new threading.excepthook() function which handles uncaught
Thread.run() exception. It can be overridden to control how uncaught
exceptions are handled.

threading.ExceptHookArgs is not documented on purpose: it should not
be used directly.

* threading.excepthook() and threading.ExceptHookArgs.
* Add _PyErr_Display(): similar to PyErr_Display(), but accept a
  'file' parameter.
* Add _thread._excepthook(): C implementation of the exception hook
  calling _PyErr_Display().
* Add _thread._ExceptHookArgs: structseq type.
* Add threading._invoke_excepthook_wrapper() which handles the gory
  details to ensure that everything remains alive during Python
  shutdown.
* Add unit tests.

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
index 1df512f..ffe6d04 100644
--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,32 @@ This module defines the following functions:
    returned.
 
 
+.. function:: excepthook(args, /)
+
+   Handle uncaught exception raised by :func:`Thread.run`.
+
+   The *args* argument has the following attributes:
+
+   * *exc_type*: Exception type.
+   * *exc_value*: Exception value, can be ``None``.
+   * *exc_traceback*: Exception traceback, can be ``None``.
+   * *thread*: Thread which raised the exception, can be ``None``.
+
+   If *exc_type* is :exc:`SystemExit`, the exception is silently ignored.
+   Otherwise, the exception is printed out on :data:`sys.stderr`.
+
+   If  this function raises an exception, :func:`sys.excepthook` is called to
+   handle it.
+
+   :func:`threading.excepthook` can be overridden to control how uncaught
+   exceptions raised by :func:`Thread.run` are handled.
+
+   .. seealso::
+      :func:`sys.excepthook` handles uncaught exceptions.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.8
+
+
 .. function:: get_ident()
 
    Return the 'thread identifier' of the current thread.  This is a nonzero
@@ -191,6 +217,10 @@ called is terminated.
 A thread has a name.  The name can be passed to the constructor, and read or
 changed through the :attr:`~Thread.name` attribute.
 
+If the :meth:`~Thread.run` method raises an exception,
+:func:`threading.excepthook` is called to handle it. By default,
+:func:`threading.excepthook` ignores silently :exc:`SystemExit`.
+
 A thread can be flagged as a "daemon thread".  The significance of this flag is
 that the entire Python program exits when only daemon threads are left.  The
 initial value is inherited from the creating thread.  The flag can be set