Issue #23781: Add private helper function _PyErr_ReplaceException() that
corresponds _PyErr_ChainExceptions() in Python 3 to help porting patches
from Python 3.
diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
index 29db164..04c4445 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -529,14 +529,8 @@
         PyObject *exc, *val, *tb, *close_result;
         PyErr_Fetch(&exc, &val, &tb);
         close_result = PyObject_CallMethod(result, "close", NULL);
-        if (close_result != NULL) {
-            Py_DECREF(close_result);
-            PyErr_Restore(exc, val, tb);
-        } else {
-            Py_XDECREF(exc);
-            Py_XDECREF(val);
-            Py_XDECREF(tb);
-        }
+        _PyErr_ReplaceException(exc, val, tb);
+        Py_XDECREF(close_result);
         Py_DECREF(result);
     }
     Py_XDECREF(modeobj);
diff --git a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
index f146958..b4632ed 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
@@ -483,15 +483,8 @@
     res = PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs(self->raw, _PyIO_str_close, NULL);
 
     if (exc != NULL) {
-        if (res != NULL) {
-            Py_CLEAR(res);
-            PyErr_Restore(exc, val, tb);
-        }
-        else {
-            Py_DECREF(exc);
-            Py_XDECREF(val);
-            Py_XDECREF(tb);
-        }
+        _PyErr_ReplaceException(exc, val, tb);
+        Py_CLEAR(res);
     }
 
 end:
diff --git a/Modules/_io/textio.c b/Modules/_io/textio.c
index 48e0c66..65c8d8d 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c
@@ -2480,15 +2480,8 @@
 
         res = PyObject_CallMethod(self->buffer, "close", NULL);
         if (exc != NULL) {
-            if (res != NULL) {
-                Py_CLEAR(res);
-                PyErr_Restore(exc, val, tb);
-            }
-            else {
-                Py_DECREF(exc);
-                Py_XDECREF(val);
-                Py_XDECREF(tb);
-            }
+            _PyErr_ReplaceException(exc, val, tb);
+            Py_CLEAR(res);
         }
         return res;
     }