On Tue, Mar 08 2011, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out unittests on exceptions. I have a test which
> should pass - but it is failing. The simplest possible code is here:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import unittest
> def testfunc():
> if 1:
> raise TypeError
You should raise raise an instance of TypeError. Not the class itself.
>
> class Testfunc(unittest.TestCase):
> def testit(self):
> self.assertRaises(TypeError,testfunc())
You should say
self.assertRaises(TypeError, testfunc)
i.e. without the (). assertRaises will do the invocation.
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> unittest.main()
I'd recommend that you use a harness like py.test (which I highly
recommend) or nose to run your tests rather than do it raw like this.
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