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

Tue Apr 19 23:24:35 CEST 2011

Yeah, that looks perfect.
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
> --
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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>