[Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement) (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Thu Jul 17 19:21:24 CEST 2008


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Ron Adam wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

The essence of the function remains unchanged - you're still asserting that a particular exception is raised. Returning the actual exception object that was caught is merely a convenience that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure I understand... If "a particular exception is raised", every thing is good and there is no error to report. ie... the code being tested did the right thing.

I think that in this case the propoent wants to be able to make further assertions about the raised exception (e.g., to test its message).

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