backport: #20145: assert[Raises|Warns]Regex now raise TypeError on bad regex.

Previously a non-string, non-regex second argument and missing callable
argument could cause the test to appear to always pass.

Initial patch by Kamilla Holanda.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/case.py b/Lib/unittest/case.py
index 87fb02b..bedbc67 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/case.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/case.py
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ class _AssertRaisesBaseContext(_BaseTestCaseContext):
                 self.obj_name = str(callable_obj)
         else:
             self.obj_name = None
-        if isinstance(expected_regex, (bytes, str)):
+        if expected_regex is not None:
             expected_regex = re.compile(expected_regex)
         self.expected_regex = expected_regex
         self.msg = None
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/test/test_case.py b/Lib/unittest/test/test_case.py
index 363390a..4932578 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/test/test_case.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/test/test_case.py
@@ -1126,6 +1126,18 @@ test case
                 self.assertRaisesRegex, Exception, 'x',
                 lambda: None)
 
+    def testAssertRaisesRegexInvalidRegex(self):
+        # Issue 20145.
+        class MyExc(Exception):
+            pass
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.assertRaisesRegex, MyExc, lambda: True)
+
+    def testAssertWarnsRegexInvalidRegex(self):
+        # Issue 20145.
+        class MyWarn(Warning):
+            pass
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.assertWarnsRegex, MyWarn, lambda: True)
+
     def testAssertRaisesRegexMismatch(self):
         def Stub():
             raise Exception('Unexpected')