Issue 13177: Make tracebacks more readable by avoiding chained exceptions in the lru_cache.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_functools.py b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
index 7d11b53..270cab0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_functools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
@@ -655,6 +655,22 @@ class TestLRU(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(fib.cache_info(),
             functools._CacheInfo(hits=0, misses=0, maxsize=None, currsize=0))
 
+    def test_lru_with_exceptions(self):
+        # Verify that user_function exceptions get passed through without
+        # creating a hard-to-read chained exception.
+        # http://bugs.python.org/issue13177
+        for maxsize in (None, 100):
+            @functools.lru_cache(maxsize)
+            def func(i):
+                return 'abc'[i]
+            self.assertEqual(func(0), 'a')
+            with self.assertRaises(IndexError) as cm:
+                func(15)
+            self.assertIsNone(cm.exception.__context__)
+            # Verify that the previous exception did not result in a cached entry
+            with self.assertRaises(IndexError):
+                func(15)
+
 def test_main(verbose=None):
     test_classes = (
         TestPartial,