On Apr 16, 3:13 pm, "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All: > > Hi. I am an experienced developer (15 yrs), but new to Python and have > a question re unittest and assertRaises. No matter what I raise, > assertRaises is never successful. Here is the test code: > > class Foo: > def testException(self): > raise ValueError > > class FooTestCase(unittest.TestCase): > > testTryThis(self): > f = Foo() > self.assertRaises(ValueError, f.testException()) >
The second argument should be a callable object, not the result from invoking that callable object. Thus, change self.assertRaises(ValueError, f.testException()) to self.assertRaises(ValueError, f.testException) -- Hope this helps, Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
