[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Updated patch after sprinting on this with Michael Foord.
> 
> TODO:
>  * update assertRaisesWithRegexpMatch to be a context manager.

Wouldn't it be simpler to make assertRaises return the exception and let
the calling code match it as it feels like?

(or, at least, find a shorter name than assertRaisesWithRegexpMatch :-))

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