old-raise-syntax can be triggered only on Python 2

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/checkers/python3.py b/pylint/checkers/python3.py
index b5881d445..8da569b0f 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/python3.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/python3.py
@@ -917,9 +917,11 @@ class Python3Checker(checkers.BaseChecker):
         """Visit a raise statement and check for raising
         strings or old-raise-syntax.
         """
-        if (node.exc is not None and
-                node.inst is not None):
-            self.add_message('old-raise-syntax', node=node)
+        if six.PY2:
+            if (node.exc is not None and
+                    node.inst is not None and
+                    node.tback is None):
+                self.add_message('old-raise-syntax', node=node)
 
         # Ignore empty raise.
         if node.exc is None: