@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
                 # raised inside the "with" statement from being suppressed.
                 return exc is not value
             except RuntimeError as exc:
+                # Don't re-raise the passed in exception. (issue27112)
+                if exc is value:
+                    return False
                 # Likewise, avoid suppressing if a StopIteration exception
                 # was passed to throw() and later wrapped into a RuntimeError
                 # (see PEP 479).
 
@@ -762,6 +762,34 @@ class Example(object): pass
         stack.push(cm)
         self.assertIs(stack._exit_callbacks[-1], cm)
 
+    def test_dont_reraise_RuntimeError(self):
+        """https://bugs.python.org/issue27122"""
+        class UniqueException(Exception): pass
+
+        @contextmanager
+        def second():
+            try:
+                yield 1
+            except Exception as exc:
+                raise UniqueException("new exception") from exc
+
+        @contextmanager
+        def first():
+            try:
+                yield 1
+            except Exception as exc:
+                raise exc
+
+        # The RuntimeError should be caught by second()'s exception
+        # handler which chain raised a new UniqueException.
+        with self.assertRaises(UniqueException) as err_ctx:
+            with ExitStack() as es_ctx:
+                es_ctx.enter_context(second())
+                es_ctx.enter_context(first())
+                raise RuntimeError("please no infinite loop.")
+
+        self.assertEqual(err_ctx.exception.args[0], "new exception")
+
 
 class TestRedirectStream:
 
 
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #27123: When an exception is raised within the context being managed
+  by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators
+  catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception
+  when exiting, let the new chained one through.  This avoids the PEP 479
+  bug described in issue25782.
+
 - Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux.
   Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes,
   instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.