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-- Issue #27123: When an exception is raised within the context being managed
+- Issue #27122: When an exception is raised within the context being managed
   by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators
   catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception
   when exiting, let the new chained one through.  This avoids the PEP 479