Pick the latest value from the inferred values when looking for ``raising-non-exception``

Close #2431

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/test/functional/invalid_exceptions_raised.py b/pylint/test/functional/invalid_exceptions_raised.py
index ddc8891ff..78e6b65a0 100644
--- a/pylint/test/functional/invalid_exceptions_raised.py
+++ b/pylint/test/functional/invalid_exceptions_raised.py
@@ -89,3 +89,17 @@ def exception_instance_regression():
         int("9a")
     except ValueError as exc:
         raise exc
+
+
+def reusing_same_name_picks_the_latest_raised_value():
+    class Error(Exception):
+        """some error"""
+
+    exceptions = tuple([ValueError, TypeError])
+    try:
+        raise ValueError
+    except exceptions as exc:  # pylint: disable=catching-non-exception
+        # https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1756
+        exc = Error(exc)
+        if exc:
+            raise exc