diff -r 4d8e37e54a7d Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py	Sat Feb 21 19:51:17 2015 +0200
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py	Mon Feb 23 01:54:37 2015 -0600
@@ -334,25 +334,34 @@
         thread = threading.current_thread()
 
         for taskseq, set_length in iter(taskqueue.get, None):
+            task = None
             i = -1
-            for i, task in enumerate(taskseq):
-                if thread._state:
-                    debug('task handler found thread._state != RUN')
-                    break
-                try:
-                    put(task)
-                except Exception as e:
-                    job, ind = task[:2]
+            try:
+                for i, task in enumerate(taskseq):
+                    if thread._state:
+                        debug('task handler found thread._state != RUN')
+                        break
                     try:
-                        cache[job]._set(ind, (False, e))
-                    except KeyError:
-                        pass
-            else:
+                        put(task)
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        job, ind = task[:2]
+                        try:
+                            cache[job]._set(ind, (False, e))
+                        except KeyError:
+                            pass
+                else:
+                    if set_length:
+                        debug('doing set_length()')
+                        set_length(i+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:
                     debug('doing set_length()')
                     set_length(i+1)
-                continue
-            break
         else:
             debug('task handler got sentinel')
 
diff -r 4d8e37e54a7d Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py	Sat Feb 21 19:51:17 2015 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py	Mon Feb 23 01:54:37 2015 -0600
@@ -1102,6 +1102,13 @@
 def sqr(x, wait=0.0):
     time.sleep(wait)
     return x*x
+
+def exception_throwing_generator(total, when):
+    for i in range(total):
+        if i == when:
+            raise ValueError("Somebody said when")
+        yield i
+
 class _TestPool(BaseTestCase):
 
     def test_apply(self):
@@ -1157,6 +1164,25 @@
             self.assertEqual(it.next(), i*i)
         self.assertRaises(StopIteration, it.next)
 
+    def test_imap_handle_iterable_exception(self):
+        if self.TYPE == 'manager':
+            self.skipTest('test not appropriate for {}'.format(self.TYPE))
+
+        it = self.pool.imap(sqr, exception_throwing_generator(10, 3), 1)
+        for i in range(3):
+            self.assertEqual(next(it), i*i)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, it.next)
+
+        # ValueError seen at start of problematic chunk's results
+        it = self.pool.imap(sqr, exception_throwing_generator(20, 7), 2)
+        for i in range(6):
+            self.assertEqual(next(it), i*i)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, it.next)
+        it = self.pool.imap(sqr, exception_throwing_generator(20, 7), 4)
+        for i in range(4):
+            self.assertEqual(next(it), i*i)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, it.next)
+
     def test_imap_unordered(self):
         it = self.pool.imap_unordered(sqr, range(1000))
         self.assertEqual(sorted(it), map(sqr, range(1000)))
@@ -1164,6 +1190,25 @@
         it = self.pool.imap_unordered(sqr, range(1000), chunksize=53)
         self.assertEqual(sorted(it), map(sqr, range(1000)))
 
+    def test_imap_unordered_handle_iterable_exception(self):
+        if self.TYPE == 'manager':
+            self.skipTest('test not appropriate for {}'.format(self.TYPE))
+
+        it = self.pool.imap_unordered(sqr,
+                                      exception_throwing_generator(10, 3),
+                                      1)
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            # imap_unordered makes it difficult to anticipate the ValueError
+            for i in range(10):
+                self.assertEqual(next(it), i*i)
+
+        it = self.pool.imap_unordered(sqr,
+                                      exception_throwing_generator(20, 7),
+                                      2)
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            for i in range(20):
+                self.assertEqual(next(it), i*i)
+
     def test_make_pool(self):
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, multiprocessing.Pool, -1)
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, multiprocessing.Pool, 0)