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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/assertions.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/assertions.py
index c30fdf823..3aa2649f4 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/assertions.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/assertions.py
@@ -384,9 +384,13 @@ def _expect_raises(except_cls, msg=None, check_context=False):
ec.error = err
success = True
if msg is not None:
- assert re.search(
- msg, util.text_type(err), re.UNICODE
- ), "%r !~ %s" % (msg, err)
+ # I'm often pdbing here, and "err" above isn't
+ # in scope, so assign the string explicitly
+ error_as_string = util.text_type(err)
+ assert re.search(msg, error_as_string, re.UNICODE), "%r !~ %s" % (
+ msg,
+ error_as_string,
+ )
if check_context and not are_we_already_in_a_traceback:
_assert_proper_exception_context(err)
print(util.text_type(err).encode("utf-8"))