[Python-Dev] assertRaises (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jul 17 11:12:59 CEST 2008


Fred Drake <fdrake acm.org> writes:

Sounds like adding a new method, catchException(...), that returns the exception it catches, would be a reasonable compromise. I can't think of any reason that the method that catches-and-returns needs to be the existing API, which does something different.

So you'd have a method that just catches (assertRaises), and another one that catches-and-returns (catchException)? It doesn't seem very practical to have two different methods based on such a small and trivial difference. Let's just make assertRaises return the exception instance, it seems like it feels the need correctly.



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