gh-101578: mention in what's new in 3.12 that exceptions are now norm…

…alized before stored (#102702)
python · Mar 14, 2023 · 152292b · 152292b
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@@ -982,6 +982,11 @@ Porting to Python 3.12
   effects, these side effects are no longer duplicated.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`98724`.)
 
+* The interpreter's error indicator is now always normalized. This means
+  that :c:func:`PyErr_SetObject`, :c:func:`PyErr_SetString` and the other
+  functions that set the error indicator now normalize the exception
+  before storing it. (Contributed by Mark Shannon in :gh:`101578`.)
+
 Deprecated
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