Interaction btw unittest.assertRaises and __getattr__. Bug?

[Inyeol]

Unittest assertRaises cannot handle exception raised inside
__getattr__ method. Is it a bug? or am I missing something obvious?

Here is a sample of this problem:

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import unittest

class C():

    def simple_attr(self):
        raise AttributeError

    def __getattr__(self, name):
        raise AttributeError

class Test(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_simple_attr(self):
        c = C()
        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, c.simple_attr)

    def test_getattr(self):
        c = C()
        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, c.foo)

unittest.main()
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Unittest assertRaises handles simple attribute lookup but the
exception inside __getattr__ bypasses unittest and generates
traceback:
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E.
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ERROR: test_getattr (__main__.Test)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "xxx.py", line 19, in test_getattr
    self.assertRaises(AttributeError, c.foo)
  File "xxx.py", line 9, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError
AttributeError

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Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

FAILED (errors=1)
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It doesn't matter what kind of exception it raises. Any exception
inside __getattr__ bypasses assertRaises.
This happens both with 3.1.2 and 2.6.5. Any idea?

Inyeol