backport: #20145: assertRaisesRegexp now raises a TypeError on bad regex.
Previously a non-string, non-regex second argument and no callable
argument could cause the test to appear to always pass.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 8875389..b7404ca 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -546,6 +546,7 @@
Albert Hofkamp
Tomas Hoger
Jonathan Hogg
+Kamilla Holanda
Steve Holden
Akintayo Holder
Thomas Holenstein
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0f45555..711c70c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #20145: `assertRaisesRegex` now raises a TypeError if the second
+ argument is not a string or compiled regex.
+
- Issue #21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(),
close the file descriptor if os.fdopen() fails