[issue15836] unittest assertRaises should verify excClass is actually a BaseException class

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

Sounds like a reasonable suggestion.  However, the patch is not valid for 2.7, since there exceptions can be old style classes.

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nosy: +r.david.murray
stage:  -> patch review
versions:  -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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