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diff --git a/cloudinit/tests/helpers.py b/cloudinit/tests/helpers.py
index 14c0b0bf..a2e10536 100644
--- a/cloudinit/tests/helpers.py
+++ b/cloudinit/tests/helpers.py
@@ -433,12 +433,12 @@ if not hasattr(mock.Mock, 'assert_not_called'):
mock.Mock.assert_not_called = __mock_assert_not_called
-# older unittest2.TestCase (centos6) do not have assertRaisesRegex
-# And setting assertRaisesRegex to assertRaisesRegexp causes
-# https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1653 . So the workaround.
+# older unittest2.TestCase (centos6) have only the now-deprecated
+# assertRaisesRegexp. Simple assignment makes pylint complain, about
+# users of assertRaisesRegex so we use getattr to trick it.
+# https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1946
if not hasattr(unittest2.TestCase, 'assertRaisesRegex'):
- def _tricky(*args, **kwargs):
- return unittest2.TestCase.assertRaisesRegexp
- unittest2.TestCase.assertRaisesRegex = _tricky
+ unittest2.TestCase.assertRaisesRegex = (
+ getattr(unittest2.TestCase, 'assertRaisesRegexp'))
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