From bcf6ca13454cc90c65092fb11063bbaf1c09a268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:15:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] rewrite for inferior assertRaises

---
 Lib/test/test_descr.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index 67e58ca1579..bc5edef8571 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -1144,8 +1144,12 @@ order (MRO) for bases """
 
         class X(object):
             __slots__ = "a"
-        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+        try:
             del X().a
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("didn't raise AttributeError")
 
     def test_slots_special(self):
         # Testing __dict__ and __weakref__ in __slots__...