In Lib/test/test_contextlib.py, there is a bug in the nested usage part of the following function:

def test_cm_is_reentrant(self): 
    ignore_exceptions = suppress(Exception) 
    with ignore_exceptions: 
        pass 
    with ignore_exceptions: 
        len(5) 
    with ignore_exceptions: 
        1/0 
        with ignore_exceptions: # Check nested usage 
            len(5)

Specifically, the final 2 lines aren't reached since the exception raised by 1/0 exits the context manager.

Hah.  I predicted this thing was going to attract bug reports :)

The behavior you observe is how context managers in general and this one in particular work.  I'll let Nick explain it, since he wrote it.  Maybe there is an doc improvement that would help.

I may not have been clear—I understand how context managers work with exceptions.

I'm just pointing out that the nested context manager isn't called, so those final two lines aren't testing anything, right?

Oh, I didn't read your message carefully enough. But that makes this bug report even more ironic.

My suggested fix would look like:

with ignore_exceptions:
    with ignore_exceptions:  # Check nested usage 
        len(5)
    ignored = True
    1/0
self.assertTrue(ignored)

Looks good to me.  I hope I never see anything like that in real code, though :)

That patch looks correct.

Added a patch with Martina's idea. Isn't ignored better set as false instead ? Since interpreter did not ignore it.

Okay maybe “ignored” wasn’t the best choice of variable name. Perhaps I will write “outer_continued = True” instead.

New changeset 452f76cbebdd by Martin Panter in branch '3.4':
Issue #25322: Fix test for nested contextlib.suppress
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/452f76cbebdd

New changeset 836ac579e179 by Martin Panter in branch '3.5':
Issue #25322: Merge contextlib.suppress test fix from 3.4 into 3.5
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/836ac579e179

New changeset c601496c2829 by Martin Panter in branch 'default':
Issue #25322: Merge contextlib.suppress test fix from 3.5
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c601496c2829

I had no problem understanding that ignored meant the exception had been ignored, but making it clearer certainly doesn't hurt.