Is it good Python style to write a function that has no effect other than potentially raise exceptions?

Sometimes I find myself writing Python code that looks like this:

def check_stuff():
    if condition1:
        return "condition1" # These might be enum values, etc., instead of strings
    if condition2:
        return "condition2"

def func():
    cs = check_stuff()
    if "condition1" == cs:
        raise Exception1()
    if "condition2" == cs:
        raise Exception2()      
    #...

Here, the return value of check_stuff() is only used to decide what exception to raise. Let's imagine that this is true of every time I call check_stuff(), probably because I only call it once. Would it be better style to just raise the exceptions in check_stuff itself?

def check_stuff2():
    if condition1:
        raise Exception1()
    if condition2():
        raise Exception2()

def func2():
    check_stuff()
    #...