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  r78538 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 19:13:36 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 78536 via svnmerge from
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    r78536 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 19:09:19 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

    Cleanup the test added in r78517 based on Ezio Melotti's feedback.
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Lib/test/test_threading.py

@@ -229,14 +229,10 @@ class ThreadTests(unittest.TestCase):
         threading._start_new_thread = fail_new_thread
         try:
             t = threading.Thread(target=lambda: None)
-            try:
-                t.start()
-                assert False
-            except threading.ThreadError:
-                self.assertFalse(
-                    t in threading._limbo,
-                    "Failed to cleanup _limbo map on failure of Thread.start()."
-                )
+            self.assertRaises(threading.ThreadError, t.start)
+            self.assertFalse(
+                t in threading._limbo,
+                "Failed to cleanup _limbo map on failure of Thread.start().")
         finally:
             threading._start_new_thread = _start_new_thread