This function implements a few ugly things so that we can patch the
    traceback objects.  The function returned allows resetting `tb_next` on
    any python traceback object.

def _init_ugly_crap():
    """This function implements a few ugly things so that we can patch the
    traceback objects.  The function returned allows resetting `tb_next` on
    any python traceback object.
    """
    import ctypes
    from types import TracebackType

    # figure out side of _Py_ssize_t
    if hasattr(ctypes.pythonapi, 'Py_InitModule4_64'):
        _Py_ssize_t = ctypes.c_int64
    else:
        _Py_ssize_t = ctypes.c_int

    # regular python
    class _PyObject(ctypes.Structure):
        pass
    _PyObject._fields_ = [
        ('ob_refcnt', _Py_ssize_t),
        ('ob_type', ctypes.POINTER(_PyObject))
    ]

    # python with trace
    if object.__basicsize__ != ctypes.sizeof(_PyObject):
        class _PyObject(ctypes.Structure):
            pass
        _PyObject._fields_ = [
            ('_ob_next', ctypes.POINTER(_PyObject)),
            ('_ob_prev', ctypes.POINTER(_PyObject)),
            ('ob_refcnt', _Py_ssize_t),
            ('ob_type', ctypes.POINTER(_PyObject))
        ]

    class _Traceback(_PyObject):
        pass
    _Traceback._fields_ = [
        ('tb_next', ctypes.POINTER(_Traceback)),
        ('tb_frame', ctypes.POINTER(_PyObject)),
        ('tb_lasti', ctypes.c_int),
        ('tb_lineno', ctypes.c_int)
    ]

    def tb_set_next(tb, next):
        """Set the tb_next attribute of a traceback object."""
        if not (isinstance(tb, TracebackType) and
                (next is None or isinstance(next, TracebackType))):
            raise TypeError('tb_set_next arguments must be traceback objects')
        obj = _Traceback.from_address(id(tb))
        if tb.tb_next is not None:
            old = _Traceback.from_address(id(tb.tb_next))
            old.ob_refcnt -= 1
        if next is None:
            obj.tb_next = ctypes.POINTER(_Traceback)()
        else:
            next = _Traceback.from_address(id(next))
            next.ob_refcnt += 1
            obj.tb_next = ctypes.pointer(next)

    return tb_set_next