[issue28135] assertRaises should return the exception in its simple form

R. David Murray added the comment: This has been proposed and rejected several times before. IMO, a strong reason to reject it is that no other assert methods return values. Consistency is important. Also note that cm survives the context manager, so you don't need that assignment

[issue28135] assertRaises should return the exception in its simple form

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: -0 This doesn't feel Pythonic to me. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

[issue28135] assertRaises should return the exception in its simple form

New submission from Facundo Batista: So, you could do: exc = self.assertRaises(ValueError, somefunc, someargs) And then, explore "exc" as will. Yes, you can get the exception if you use assertRaises as a context manager, but that leads to more cumbersome code: with