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diff --git a/checkers/exceptions.py b/checkers/exceptions.py
index 8a1c98a4a..88a8f225e 100644
--- a/checkers/exceptions.py
+++ b/checkers/exceptions.py
@@ -180,9 +180,28 @@ class ExceptionsChecker(BaseChecker):
expr.name in ('None', 'True', 'False')) or
isinstance(expr, (astroid.List, astroid.Dict, astroid.Tuple,
astroid.Module, astroid.Function))):
- self.add_message('raising-bad-type',
- node=node,
- args=expr.name)
+ emit = True
+ if not PY3K and isinstance(expr, astroid.Tuple):
+ # On Python 2, using the following is not an error:
+ # raise (ZeroDivisionError, None)
+ # raise (ZeroDivisionError, )
+ # What's left to do is to check that the first
+ # argument is indeed an exception.
+ # Verifying the other arguments is not
+ # the scope of this check.
+ first = expr.elts[0]
+ inferred = safe_infer(first)
+ if isinstance(inferred, Instance):
+ # pylint: disable=protected-access
+ inferred = inferred._proxied
+ if (inferred is YES or
+ isinstance(inferred, astroid.Class)
+ and inherit_from_std_ex(inferred)):
+ emit = False
+ if emit:
+ self.add_message('raising-bad-type',
+ node=node,
+ args=expr.name)
elif ((isinstance(expr, astroid.Name) and expr.name == 'NotImplemented')
or (isinstance(expr, astroid.CallFunc) and
isinstance(expr.func, astroid.Name) and