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The traceback in the output of the attached test (see below) doesn't include line 5, which is where the original exception is raised. I think this is because https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/b9ee4af4c643a323779fd7076e80b29d611f2709/Lib/unittest/result.py#L180-L186 uses the `limit` parameter to try to hide the implementation of `self.fail()` from the traceback, but `traceback.TracebackException.format()` applies the limit to the chained exception. I'm not sure if that's a bug in unittest or traceback, but from the comment in the above part of unittest, I don't think it's intentional.
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FAIL: test_foo (__main__.FooTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "foo.py", line 12, in test_foo
 foo()
ValueError: foo
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "foo.py", line 14, in test_foo
 self.fail('foo() raised ValueError')
AssertionError: foo() raised ValueError
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Ran 1 test in 0.000s
FAILED (failures=1)

I made a patch that replaces the limit hack by a filter on the traceback. We could stop here an just fix this, or we could create a more generic filter in the traceback module as suggested in issue31299.

I think this is the same as issue37712.