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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-03-24 03:24:56 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-03-24 03:24:56 (GMT)
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this is better written using assertRaises
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_support.py8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 5186a57..df3dce6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -370,12 +370,8 @@ def make_bad_fd():
unlink(TESTFN)
def check_syntax_error(testcase, statement):
- try:
- compile(statement, '<test string>', 'exec')
- except SyntaxError:
- pass
- else:
- testcase.fail('Missing SyntaxError: "%s"' % statement)
+ testcase.assertRaises(SyntaxError, compile, statement,
+ '<test string>', 'exec')
def open_urlresource(url):
import urllib, urlparse