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

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Fri Jul 18 00:51:45 CEST 2008


>> Let's just make assertRaises return the exception instance, it seems >> like it feels the need correctly. > > and I meant "fills", not "feels", obviously...

+1 : enriching the existing method in a way that's perfectly transparent and innocuous to all existing uses feels right, because it's more practical.

For the record, and primarily to give the champion of this proposal a little more resolve the run the python-dev gauntlet on this issue given the recent

Cheers,

Mark



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