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

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> Wouldn't it be simpler to make assertRaises return the exception and let
> the calling code match it as it feels like?

Hm, that sounds awfully familiar. I can't recall if there was ever a
good reason not to do this.

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

assertRaisesRegex?

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