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  r74524 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-08-20 04:39:38 -0500 (Thu, 20 Aug 2009) | 2 lines

  Add weakref support to the thread.lock type.
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  r74556 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-08-27 17:20:21 -0500 (Thu, 27 Aug 2009) | 2 lines

  issue 6275
  Add an "exc_value" attribute to the _AssertRaisesContext context manager in the unittest package.  This allows further tests on the exception that was raised after the context manager exits.
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2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unittest.py b/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
index 40de797..108802d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
@@ -2834,6 +2834,21 @@ test case
                 self.assertRaisesRegexp, Exception,
                 re.compile('^Expected$'), Stub)
 
+    def testAssertRaisesExcValue(self):
+        class ExceptionMock(Exception):
+            pass
+
+        def Stub(foo):
+            raise ExceptionMock(foo)
+        v = "particular value"
+
+        ctx = self.assertRaises(ExceptionMock)
+        with ctx:
+            Stub(v)
+        e = ctx.exc_value
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(e, ExceptionMock))
+        self.assertEqual(e.args[0], v)
+
     def testSynonymAssertMethodNames(self):
         """Test undocumented method name synonyms.
 
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/case.py b/Lib/unittest/case.py
index 77ca278..660ddeb 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/case.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/case.py
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ class _AssertRaisesContext(object):
         if not issubclass(exc_type, self.expected):
             # let unexpected exceptions pass through
             return False
+        self.exc_value = exc_value #store for later retrieval
         if self.expected_regex is None:
             return True