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

Thu Jul 17 03:56:46 CEST 2008

On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> I am proposing that it should have exactly one meaning. Callers 
> will be free to
> ignore the return value if they don't need it, and will see zero 
> difference in
> behaviour.

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.
OTOH, I really don't have a problem with doing a try/except/else 
myself if that's what I need.
 -Fred
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Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org>