[docs] suggestion for http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.assertRaises

Tue Apr 19 21:48:27 CEST 2011

Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 21:52, Andrew Hammond
<andrew.george.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest adding an example of using assertRaises to test a property:
>> class MyObject(object):
>    @property
>    def myProperty():
>        raise Exception()
>> self.assertRaises(Exception, getattr, myObject, myProperty)
>> Rationale: the naive approach doesn't work and I spent a good half
> hour figuring that out.

can you confirm you want something like:
class MyObject(object):
 @property
 def myProperty(self):
 raise Exception()
...
myObject = MyObject()
self.assertRaises(Exception, getattr, myObject, 'myProperty')
?
f.e:
>>> getattr(myObject, 'myProperty')
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "<stdin>", line 4, in myProperty
Exception
Else I can't get it to work.
Regards,
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