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| author | Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com> | 2009-11-13 16:10:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com> | 2009-11-13 16:10:13 (GMT) |
| commit | 92a653af95524525abf0bc6f5f08fa08dc714ab0 (patch) | |
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r74556 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-08-27 22:20:21 +0000 (fim., 27 ßg·. 2009) | 2 lines
issue 6275
Add an "exc_value" attribute to the _AssertRaisesContext context manager in the unittest package. This allows further tests on the exception that was raised after the context manager exits.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index 984ec27..c6a6405 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -891,12 +891,19 @@ Test cases with self.failUnlessRaises(some_error_class): do_something() + The context manager will store the caught exception object in its + :attr:`exc_value` attribute. This can be useful if the intention + is to perform additional checks on the exception raised. + .. versionchanged:: 3.1 Added the ability to use :meth:`assertRaises` as a context manager. .. deprecated:: 3.1 :meth:`failUnlessRaises`. + .. versionchanged:: 3.1 + Added the :attr:`exc_value` attribute. + .. method:: assertRaisesRegexp(exception, regexp[, callable, ...]) |