[New-bugs-announce] [issue7859] support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax

[Florent Xicluna]

New submission from Florent Xicluna <laxyf at yahoo.fr>:

It would be useful to get the actual exception in order to introspect its attributes.

(See some potential uses in "test_dict")

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components: Tests
messages: 98882
nosy: flox
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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