bpo-46940: Don't override existing AttributeError suggestion information

Lib/test/test_exceptions.py

@@ -2272,6 +2272,24 @@ def test_attribute_error_with_bad_name(self):
 
         self.assertNotIn("?", err.getvalue())
 
+    def test_attribute_error_inside_nested_getattr(self):
+        class A:
+            bluch = 1
+
+        class B:
+            def __getattribute__(self, attr):
+                a = A()
+                return a.blich
+
+        try:
+            B().something
+        except AttributeError as exc:
+            with support.captured_stderr() as err:
+                sys.__excepthook__(*sys.exc_info())
+
+        self.assertIn("Did you mean", err.getvalue())
+        self.assertIn("bluch", err.getvalue())
+
 
 class ImportErrorTests(unittest.TestCase):
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-03-06-20-16-13.bpo-46940._X47Hx.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Avoid overriding :exc:`AttributeError` metadata information for nested
+attribute access calls. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

Objects/object.c

@@ -875,19 +875,29 @@ static inline int
 set_attribute_error_context(PyObject* v, PyObject* name)
 {
     assert(PyErr_Occurred());
-    // Intercept AttributeError exceptions and augment them to offer
-    // suggestions later.
-    if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_AttributeError)){
-        PyObject *type, *value, *traceback;
-        PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback);
-        PyErr_NormalizeException(&type, &value, &traceback);
-        if (PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(value, PyExc_AttributeError) &&
-            (PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(name), name) ||
-             PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(obj), v))) {
-            return 1;
-        }
-        PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
+    if (!PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_AttributeError)){
+        return 0;
+    }
+    // Intercept AttributeError exceptions and augment them to offer suggestions later.
+    PyObject *type, *value, *traceback;
+    PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback);
+    PyErr_NormalizeException(&type, &value, &traceback);
+    // Check if the normalized exception is indeed an AttributeError
+    if (!PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(value, PyExc_AttributeError)) {
+        goto restore;
+    }
+    PyAttributeErrorObject* the_exc = (PyAttributeErrorObject*) value;
+    // Check if this exception was already augmented
+    if (the_exc->name || the_exc->obj) {
+        goto restore;
+    }
+    // Augment the exception with the name and object
+    if (PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(name), name) ||
+        PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(obj), v)) {
+        return 1;
     }
+restore:
+    PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
     return 0;
 }
 

Python/ceval.c

@@ -7676,9 +7676,12 @@ format_exc_check_arg(PyThreadState *tstate, PyObject *exc,
         PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback);
         PyErr_NormalizeException(&type, &value, &traceback);
         if (PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(value, PyExc_NameError)) {
-            // We do not care if this fails because we are going to restore the
-            // NameError anyway.
-            (void)PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(name), obj);
+            PyNameErrorObject* exc = (PyNameErrorObject*) value;
+            if (exc->name == NULL) {
+                // We do not care if this fails because we are going to restore the
+                // NameError anyway.
+                (void)PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(name), obj);
+            }
         }
         PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
     }