bpo-28699: fix  abnormal behaviour of pools in multiprocessing.pool (GH-693)

an exception raised at the very first of an iterable would cause pools behave abnormally
(swallow the exception or hang)
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
index ae8cec4..a545f3c 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
         try:
             result = (True, func(*args, **kwds))
         except Exception as e:
-            if wrap_exception:
+            if wrap_exception and func is not _helper_reraises_exception:
                 e = ExceptionWithTraceback(e, e.__traceback__)
             result = (False, e)
         try:
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@
         completed += 1
     util.debug('worker exiting after %d tasks' % completed)
 
+def _helper_reraises_exception(ex):
+    'Pickle-able helper function for use by _guarded_task_generation.'
+    raise ex
+
 #
 # Class representing a process pool
 #
@@ -277,6 +281,17 @@
         return self._map_async(func, iterable, starmapstar, chunksize,
                                callback, error_callback)
 
+    def _guarded_task_generation(self, result_job, func, iterable):
+        '''Provides a generator of tasks for imap and imap_unordered with
+        appropriate handling for iterables which throw exceptions during
+        iteration.'''
+        try:
+            i = -1
+            for i, x in enumerate(iterable):
+                yield (result_job, i, func, (x,), {})
+        except Exception as e:
+            yield (result_job, i+1, _helper_reraises_exception, (e,), {})
+
     def imap(self, func, iterable, chunksize=1):
         '''
         Equivalent of `map()` -- can be MUCH slower than `Pool.map()`.
@@ -285,15 +300,23 @@
             raise ValueError("Pool not running")
         if chunksize == 1:
             result = IMapIterator(self._cache)
-            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, func, (x,), {})
-                         for i, x in enumerate(iterable)), result._set_length))
+            self._taskqueue.put(
+                (
+                    self._guarded_task_generation(result._job, func, iterable),
+                    result._set_length
+                ))
             return result
         else:
             assert chunksize > 1
             task_batches = Pool._get_tasks(func, iterable, chunksize)
             result = IMapIterator(self._cache)
-            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, mapstar, (x,), {})
-                     for i, x in enumerate(task_batches)), result._set_length))
+            self._taskqueue.put(
+                (
+                    self._guarded_task_generation(result._job,
+                                                  mapstar,
+                                                  task_batches),
+                    result._set_length
+                ))
             return (item for chunk in result for item in chunk)
 
     def imap_unordered(self, func, iterable, chunksize=1):
@@ -304,15 +327,23 @@
             raise ValueError("Pool not running")
         if chunksize == 1:
             result = IMapUnorderedIterator(self._cache)
-            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, func, (x,), {})
-                         for i, x in enumerate(iterable)), result._set_length))
+            self._taskqueue.put(
+                (
+                    self._guarded_task_generation(result._job, func, iterable),
+                    result._set_length
+                ))
             return result
         else:
             assert chunksize > 1
             task_batches = Pool._get_tasks(func, iterable, chunksize)
             result = IMapUnorderedIterator(self._cache)
-            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, mapstar, (x,), {})
-                     for i, x in enumerate(task_batches)), result._set_length))
+            self._taskqueue.put(
+                (
+                    self._guarded_task_generation(result._job,
+                                                  mapstar,
+                                                  task_batches),
+                    result._set_length
+                ))
             return (item for chunk in result for item in chunk)
 
     def apply_async(self, func, args=(), kwds={}, callback=None,
@@ -323,7 +354,7 @@
         if self._state != RUN:
             raise ValueError("Pool not running")
         result = ApplyResult(self._cache, callback, error_callback)
-        self._taskqueue.put(([(result._job, None, func, args, kwds)], None))
+        self._taskqueue.put(([(result._job, 0, func, args, kwds)], None))
         return result
 
     def map_async(self, func, iterable, chunksize=None, callback=None,
@@ -354,8 +385,14 @@
         task_batches = Pool._get_tasks(func, iterable, chunksize)
         result = MapResult(self._cache, chunksize, len(iterable), callback,
                            error_callback=error_callback)
-        self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, mapper, (x,), {})
-                              for i, x in enumerate(task_batches)), None))
+        self._taskqueue.put(
+            (
+                self._guarded_task_generation(result._job,
+                                              mapper,
+                                              task_batches),
+                None
+            )
+        )
         return result
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -377,33 +414,27 @@
 
         for taskseq, set_length in iter(taskqueue.get, None):
             task = None
-            i = -1
             try:
-                for i, task in enumerate(taskseq):
+                # iterating taskseq cannot fail
+                for task in taskseq:
                     if thread._state:
                         util.debug('task handler found thread._state != RUN')
                         break
                     try:
                         put(task)
                     except Exception as e:
-                        job, ind = task[:2]
+                        job, idx = task[:2]
                         try:
-                            cache[job]._set(ind, (False, e))
+                            cache[job]._set(idx, (False, e))
                         except KeyError:
                             pass
                 else:
                     if set_length:
                         util.debug('doing set_length()')
-                        set_length(i+1)
+                        idx = task[1] if task else -1
+                        set_length(idx + 1)
                     continue
                 break
-            except Exception as ex:
-                job, ind = task[:2] if task else (0, 0)
-                if job in cache:
-                    cache[job]._set(ind + 1, (False, ex))
-                if set_length:
-                    util.debug('doing set_length()')
-                    set_length(i+1)
             finally:
                 task = taskseq = job = None
         else: