Pickling and copying exceptions preserves only __dict__ attributes.
This includes writeable internal fields initialized in constructor:
>>> import pickle, copy
>>> e = StopIteration(12)
>>> e.value = 34
>>> e.value
34
>>> e2 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(e, 4))
>>> e2.value
12
>>> e2 = copy.copy(e)
>>> e2.value
12
And __slots__:
>>> class E(Exception): __slots__ = ('x', 'y')
...
>>> e = E()
>>> e.x = 12
>>> e.x
12
>>> e2 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(e, 4))
>>> e2.x
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: x
>>> e2 = copy.copy(e)
>>> e2.x
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: x
__context__, __cause__ and __traceback__ are lost too (see issue29466).
Issue26579 is similar, but resolving it will not resolve this issue since BaseException has its own __reduce__ and __setstate__ implementations.
The solution of this issue will look similar to issue29998, but more complex and general.