Formally Storm still supports Python 2.6 (that is, we've specifically dropped support for earlier versions but not yet for 2.6). The form of assertRaises that's usable as a context manager to allow performing additional checks on the exception raised was only introduced in 2.7. Although I don't particularly care about 2.6, it felt less invasive to fix this up within the existing version constraints.
Formally Storm still supports Python 2.6 (that is, we've specifically dropped support for earlier versions but not yet for 2.6). The form of assertRaises that's usable as a context manager to allow performing additional checks on the exception raised was only introduced in 2.7. Although I don't particularly care about 2.6, it felt less invasive to fix this up within the existing version constraints.