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Cannot pickle cyclic ExceptionGroup

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Since Aug 18, 2025.

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Description

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Bug description:

Pickling an exception group with a cycle, like so...

import pickle
inner = Exception("Inner")
outer = ExceptionGroup("outer", [inner])
outer.exceptions[0].foo = outer  
pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(outer))

...produces...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 5, in <module>
ValueError: second argument (exceptions) must be a non-empty sequence

Maybe BaseExceptionGroup needs a custom reducer that allows for two-phase initialization.

CPython versions tested on:

3.13

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

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